Includes bibliographical references and indexes Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL John Kenneth Galbraith: Authors of original articlesForeword David Kironand: pt. 3.Family, gender, and socializationOverview essay Frank Ackerman: pt. 5.Foundations of economic theories of consumptionOverview essay David Kiron: pt. 7.Perpetuating consumer culture : media, advertising, and wants creationOverview essay Kevin Gallagher: pt. 9.Globalization and consumer cultureOverview essay Neva R. Goodwin: AcknowledgmentsVolume introduction Neva R. Goodwin--Asking how much is enough: pt. 1.Scope and definitionOverview essay David A. Crocker: Consumption, well-being, and virtue Marshall Sahlins: The original affluent society William Leiss: The limits to satisfaction : examination Richard Easterlin: Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? Allan Schnaiberg: The expansion of consumption Juliet Schor: New analytic bases for an economic critique of Consumer Society Colin Campbell: Consumption : the new wave of research in the humanities and social sciences David Kiron: pt. 2.Consumption in the affluent societyOverview essay Gary Cross: Traumas of time and money in prosperity and depression Juliet Schor: The insidious cycle of work and spend Raymond Benton, Jr.: Work, consumption, and the joyless consumer Daniel Miller: The study of consumption, object domains, ideology, and interests ;Toward a theory of consumption Alan Warde: Notes on the relationship between production and consumption Harry G. Johnson: The political economy of opulence Staffan B. Linder: The increasing scarcity of time Fred Hirsch: Social limits to growth : the commercialization bias Alladi Venkatesh.: Changing consumption patterns : the transformation of Orange County since World War II Viviana Zelizer: The domestic production of monies Mary Beth Haralovich: Sitcoms and suburbs : positioning the 1950s homemaker Susan Willis: Gender as commodity A. Fuat Firat: Gender and consumption : transcending the feminine? Helga Dittmar: Meanings of material possessions as reflections of identity Robert E. Lane: Friendship or commodities? The road not taken : friendship, consumerism, and happiness Stephen Kline: Playing with culture : toys, TV, and children's culture in the age of marketing Frank Ackerman: pt. 4.The history of consumer societyOverview essay Grant McCracken: The history of consumption : a literature review and consumer guide Carole Shammas: Changes in English and Anglo-American consumption from 1550 to 1800 Chandra Mukerji: Pictorial prints and the growth of consumerism : class and cosmopolitanism in early modern culture David E. Shi: The Quaker ethic : plain living and high thinking in American culture Neil McKendrick: The consumer revolution of eighteenth-century England Ben Fineand: Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution Rudi Laermans: Learning to consume : early department stores and the shaping of the modern consumer culture (1800-1914) T.J. Jackson Lears: From salvation to self-realization : advertising and the therapeutic roots of consumer culture Gary Cross.: The consumer's comfort and dream Joel Jay Kassiola: materialism and modern political philosophy Mark A. Lutzand: The history of economics from a humanistic perspective Martyn J. Lee: Capital, labor, and the commodity form David B. Hamilton: Institutional economics and consumption S.A. Drakopoulos: Keynes' economic thought and the theory of consumer behavior James S. Duesenberry: A reformulation of the theory of saving Harvey Leibenstein: Bandwagon, snob, and Veblen effects in the theory of consumers' demand Ragnar Nurkse: The standard of living and the capacity to save John Kenneth Galbraith: The imperatives of consumer demand and the dependence effect Frank Ackerman: pt. 6.Critiques and alternatives in economic theoryOverview essay Raymond Benton, Jr.: Alternative approaches to consumer behavior Paula England: The separative self : androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions Ben Fineand: Economics, psychology, and consumer behavior Tibor Scitovsky: The psychology and economics of motivation Fred Hirsch: The neglected realm of social scarcity Robert H. Frank: The demand for unobservable and other nonpositional goods Kelvin Lancaster: Change and innovation in the technology of consumption George A. Akerlof.: Procrastination and obedience Richard Pollay: The distorted mirror : reflections on the unintended consequences of advertising Colin Campbell: Modern consumerism and imaginative hedonism Marsha Richins: Social comparison, advertising, and consumer discontent William Leiss: Limits to satisfaction : diagnosis William Leiss,: Goods as satisfiers T.J. Jackson Lears: Introduction to fables of abundance J. Fred MacDonald: The emergence of American television : the formative years ;Toward a new video order : the 1980s Robert Kubeyand: Television and the structuring of experience David Morley: Theories of consumption in media studies Samuel Cameron: Household debt problems : toward a micro-macro linkage Jonathan Harris: pt. 8.Consumption and the environmentOverview essay Mark Sagoff: The allocation and distribution of resources Mario Cogoy: Market and nonmarket determinants of private consumption and their impacts on the environment Herman Daly: Consumption : value added, physical transformation, and welfare Clive Ponting: Creating the affluent society World Resources Institute: Natural resource consumption Alan Durning: The environmental costs of consumption John E. Youngand: Creating a sustainable materials economy Nathan Keyfitz: Development and the elimination of poverty Russell W. Belk: Third World consumer culture Jeffrey James: Positional goods, conspicuous consumption, and the international demonstration effect reconsidered Jeffrey Jamesand: Advertising in nonaffluent societies : Galbraith revisited Leslie Sklair: The culture-ideology of consumerism in the Third World ;The culture-ideology of consumerism in urban China Noreene Janus: Transnational advertising : some considerations of the impact on peripheral societies Rhys Jenkins: Transnational corporations and Third World consumption : implications for competitive strategies Thomas Walzand: Gross national consumption in the United States : implications for Third World development Neva R. Goodwin: pt. 10.Visions of an alternativeOverview essay John Maynard Keynes: Economic possibilities for our grandchildren Jerome M. Segal: Alternatives to mass consumption Juliet Schor: Exiting the squirrel cage Tibor Scitovsky: How to bring joy into our economics Fred Block: Qualitative growth Paul Wachtel: The poverty of affluence : new alternatives Alan Durning: A culture of permanence Duane Elgin: Living more simply and civilizational revitalization |
