Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber.
Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 406 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780393049619 (hardcover)
- 0393049612 (hardcover)
- Consumed [Spine title]
- Con $umed
- How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
- 339.4/60973 22
- HC110.C6 B324 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-381) and index.
The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility -- The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing society: the end of diversity -- The fate of citizens. Resisting consumerism: can capitalism cure itself? ; Overcoming civic schizophrenia: restoring citizenship in a world of interdependence.