Consumerism

Handbook of Economics and Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 62-68

  Stearns, Peter N ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (14)

1. Achebe, Chinua (1961), No Longer at Ease, London: Fawcett Premier.
2. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2007), special issue, 611 (May).
3. Bevir, Mark and Frank Trentmann (eds) (2007), Governance, Consumers and Citizens: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
4. Breckenridge, Carol (ed.) (1993), Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
5. Brewer, John and Roy Porter (eds) (1993), Consumption and the World of Goods, London: Routledge.
6. Cross, Gary (2000), An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America, New York: Columbia University Press.
7. Douglas, Mary and Baron Isherwood (1996), The World of Goods: Toward an Anthropology of Consumption, London: Routledge.
8. Horowitz, David (1993), The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, Chicago, IL: I.R. Dee.
9. Stearns, Peter N. (2006), Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire, London: Routledge.
10. Veblen, Thorsten (1979), The Theory of the Leisure Class, New York: Penguin.
11. Watson, James (ed.) (1998), Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
12. Williams, Rosalind (1982), Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
13. Zola, Emilé (2002), Au Bonheur des Dames, London: Penguin.
14. See also the entries on: Aristotle; Identity; Needs and agency; Scarcity.