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Consuming desires : consumption, culture, and the pursuit of happiness /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rosenblatt, Roger
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1999]
Subjects:
Consumption (Economics) > United States.
Consumer behavior > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
Individualism > United States.
Mass society.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Roger Rosenblatt
  • One world of consumers / William Greider
  • What's wrong with consumer society? : competitive spending and the "new consumerism" / Juliet Schor
  • Consuming for love / Edward N. Luttwak
  • False connections / Alex Kotlowitz
  • Oh, Isaac, oh, Bernard, oh, Mohan / Bharati Mukherjee
  • Consuming nature / Bill McKibben
  • A news consumer's Bill of Rights / Suzanne Braun Levine
  • When we devoured books / AndrĂ© Schiffrin
  • Movies and the selling of desire / Molly Haskell
  • The ecology of giving and consuming / David W. Orr
  • It all begins with housework / Jane Smiley
  • Equipoise / Martin E. Marty
  • Can't get that extinction crisis out of my mind / Stephanie Mills.