Consumption. Mark Hudson

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      1  Cover

      2  Series Title

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright Page

      5  Acknowledgements

      6  1 The Meanings of Consumption What Are We Talking About? Consumption and Political Economy Competing Themes in the History of Consumption The Rest of the Book

      7  2 An Aspiration for All the World: Championing Individual Freedom of Choice Introduction From Classical to Neoclassical Economics: Consumers as Rational Maximizers Friendly Amendments: Alterations to the Theory with Similar Implications Conclusion

      8  3 The System: Capitalist Consumerism Introduction Capitalist Commodity Production: Naming the System Commodity Fetishism Consumption and Jobs The Evolution of Capitalist Commodity Consumption in the US after World War II Conclusion

      9  4 Private Choices, Social Problems Introduction What You Don’t Know Might Hurt You: Information Asymmetry You’re Not as Clever as You Think: Behavioural Economics Relative Consumption Created Wants The Androcentric Consumer Conclusion

      10  5 The Shopocalypse? “Ten Ways to Reduce Your Impact” Blindfolded Bloated: The Problem of Scale Embedded Consumption and the Limits of Consumer Environmentalism Conclusion: Consumption as Ecological Practice Note

      11  6 Consumption, Power and Liberation Class and Consumption Consumers of the World, Express Yourselves! Consumption and Gender

      12  7 Shopping Police Shopping as Power Easy on the Surface, Hard Underneath Terror of the CEO? Saviour of the Worker, Farmer or Forest? Too Much to Bear: The Trials and Tribulations of a Label The Commodification of Politics? Conclusion

      13  References

      14  Index

      15  End User License Agreement

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Anheuser-Busch advertisement, from Theatre Magazine, February 1905; www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/buschtonic.html

      2 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 World domestic material consumption, 1970–2017, by material groupFigure 5.2 This is your mobile phoneFigure 5.3 Marine cargo and tanker traffic, 23 May 2019

      3 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Anti-slavery consumer labels, 1820 and 2019Figure 7.2 Malling is a thing: as malls suffer in many places due to the rise of online sho...

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