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Consumed (2007) (edit title/settings)

How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber (Author) (edit contributors)

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A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society. An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as... read more

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In these paltry times of capitalism's triumph, as we slide into consumer narcissism, Shakespeare's seven ages of man are in danger of being washed away by lifelong puerility.

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  1. Benjamin R. Barber (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0393049612
Page Count: 320

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