Consumption and its consequences

Consumption and its consequences

by Miller, Daniel

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This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goals such as reducing poverty and social inequality? Miller responds to these questions by proposing feasible and, where possib…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Consumption and its consequences / Daniel Miller.

Summary

This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goals such as reducing poverty and social inequality? Miller responds to these questions by proposing feasible and, where possible, currently available alternatives, drawn mainly from his own original ethnographic research. -- Publisher description.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Polity
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 205 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780745661087, 0745661084, 9780745661070, 0745661076
  • oclc:ocn779263665
  • LC Classification:HB801
  • Dewey Decimal:339.47

Table of Contents

What's wrong with consumption? -- A consumer society -- Why we shop -- Why denim? -- It's the stupid economy -- How not to save a planet.

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Subjects

Consumption (Economics) Culture matérielle Economics Konsumgesellschaft Material culture material culture (discipline) Nachhaltigkeit Sachkultur Umweltbewusstsein Verbrauch Verbraucherverhalten

Writers

Miller, Daniel

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