Consumer sovereignty, heroic sacrifice: Two insidious concepts in an endlessly expansionist economy

The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 145-164

  Princen, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883075242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (17)

1. J. H. Brunn, " Das Auto ist ein Stuck mehr Freiheit " (The Auto Is Another Piece of Freedom), speech to the VDA-Mitgliederversammlung, Baden-Baden, September 27, 1974.
2. Wolfgang Sachs, For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 97, translated from the 1984 German original by Don Reneau
3. Thomas Princen, The Logic of Sufficiency (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005)
4. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca, eds., Confronting Consumption (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).
5. William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993), 277
6. Peter Sutherland, chairman of Goldman Sachs International and of the Overseas Development Council, and John W. Sewell, president of the Overseas Development Council, " Gather the Nations to Promote Globalization, " The New York Times, February 8, 1998.
7. Leach, Land of Desire, 229
8. Simon Patten, " Reconstruction of Economic Theory " (1912); reprinted in Essays in Economic Theory, ed. Rexford Tugwell (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), 337.
9. Simon Patten, The Theory of Prosperity (New York, 1902), 182; quoted in Leach, Land of Desire, 239
10. Angus Deaton in The Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (London: Palgrave, 1987), 599
11. Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953), 51
12. Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987), 17
13. Michael Maniates, " Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? " and Thomas Princen, " Distancing: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback, " in Princen et al., Confronting Consumption.
14. Thomas Princen, Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010), in which I argue that the question of reduc ing consumption without hurting the economy is the wrong question, presuming, as it does, that present practices will not " hurt the economy, " let alone people and communities and the ecosystems on which they depend
15. Paul Krugman, " Death by Insurance, " The New York Times, May 1, 2006, A19(L)
16. Manno ' s chapter, " Commoditization: Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection, " in Princen et al., Confronting Consumption.
17. Leach, Land of Desire