Consumed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole /

Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-

Consumed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber. - New York, N.Y. ; London : W. W. Norton, 2008. - 406 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published in hardback: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This provocative culmination of Benjamin R. Barber's lifelong study of democracy and capitalism shows how the infantalist ethos deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces public gods with private commodites.

Specialized.

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Consumption (Economics)--United States.
Consumer behavior--United States.
Child consumers--United States.
Capitalism--United States.
Materialism--Social aspects.--United States
Mass society.


United States--Social conditions--1980-

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