Consumed by Benjamin R Barber

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Consumed by Benjamin R Barber

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.

"Barber delivers a frightening analysis of the way consumerism is vitiating shoppers in the United States and around the world" -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"This lifelong study of the effects of capitalism and privatization reveals a pervasiveness of branding and homogenization from which there is no turning back." -- Booklist
"A remarkable book about the shifting nature of capitalism…Beguiling." -- Financial World
"[Barber's] thesis has genuine bite." -- Denver Post

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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ISBN 13	9780393330892
ISBN 10	0393330893
Title	Consumed
Author	Benjamin R Barber
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2008-03-20
Number of pages	416
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Consumed by Benjamin R Barber

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