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Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 406 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393049612 (hardcover)
  • 9780393049619 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • Consumed [Spine title]
  • Con $umed
  • How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
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Contents:
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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 339.47 B234 Available 33111005165002
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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.

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.

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