Consumed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber.
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TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. ; London : W. W. Norton, 2008Description: 406 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780393330892 (pbk.) :; 0393330893 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- United States | Consumer behavior -- United States | Child consumers -- United States | Capitalism -- United States | Materialism -- United States -- Social aspects | Mass society | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-DDC classification: 339.4'6'0973 Summary: 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.
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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.
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