Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

Name: Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
Rating: 4.333333492279053 (3 reviews)

Benjamin R. Barber

Mar 2008 · W. W. Norton & Company

4.3

3 reviews

Ebook

416

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About this ebook

"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." —Jackson Lears

A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers—and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. Disturbing, provocative, and compelling, this book examines phenomena as seemingly disparate as adolescent fashion trends for adults, megachurches, declining voter participation, the privatization of the public sphere, branding, and the rise of online shopping to show how the freedoms of the free market have undermined the freedoms of the deliberative adult citizen. Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament.

Ratings and reviews

4.3

3 reviews

Adrian Garcia

October 18, 2019

Great read

About the author

Benjamin R. Barber (1939—2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld.

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