Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, And Swallow Citizens Whole
Use attributes for filter ! | |
Google books | books.google.com |
---|---|
Originally published | March 2007 |
Authors | Benjamin Barber |
Genres | Non-fiction |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 2390305 |
About Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, And Swallow Citizens Whole
"Consumed" offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specialises today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs. . . .