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

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Author: Barber, Benjamin R.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding: Paperback
Copyright: 2008
ISBN-13: 9780393330892
ISBN-10: 0393330893

A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that 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. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood we are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption.

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