|
More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #26A: The
Consumerist |
|
Consumer
Bill of Rights (from online encyclopedia) |
|
Consumerist
(online encyclopedia article about the consumer affairs blog) |
|
link
to Consumerist blog |
|
Marketing
and Consumerism (Canadian educational website) |
| Consumer's
Union / Consumer Reports Magazine |
| The
Story of Stuff, with Annie Leonard (20 minute look at
"the underside of our production and consumption patterns") |
| Brainwashed:
Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy by
Martin Lindstrom (more on this 2011 book) |
| "The Tyranny of Choice: You Choose"
article from The Economist Dec 18 2010 |
| "The
Genius of QVC," by Megan McArdle (June 2010 The Atlantic article
about the shopping network) |
| Buyology:
Truths and Lies About Why We Buy, by Martin Lindstrom (read excerpts
from 2008 book) |
|
Consumerism
and the New Capitalism (essay by R. Cronk) |
| The
Center for Consumer Freedom |
| The
Center for Consumer Freedom -- their deception exposed |
| The Consuming Instinct by Gad Saad
(2011 book by marketing professor and Psychology Today blogger) |
| Why
We Buy--The Science of Shopping, by Paco Underhill (read
excerpts from this 2008 book at Google Books) |
| Harvard
Design School Guide to Shopping, by Rem Koolhaas (book review of this
800 page volume) |
| Life
is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore, by
Chua Beng Huat (book review) |
| Temples
of Consumption: Shopping Malls As Secular Cathedrals |
| Economics
Notes: Your Role as a Consumer |
| Shopping
is Patriotic, Leaders Say |
| For
American Consumers, How Much is Enough? by Jeffrey Shaffer (May, 2007
CSM article) |
| The
Moral Nature of Free Enterprise |
| Blippy.com
(website providing "a fun and easy way to see and
discuss the things people are buying") |
| "Wake
Up and Sell the Coffee," by Barbara Kiviat (article on selling
high priced coffee to affluent consumers) |
|
"Guilt
Won't Stop Impulsive Shoppers, Researchers Say" (2007 CBC
article) |
|
"Sex and
Advertising: Retail Therapy" (historical perspective from Dec 17
2011 The Economist) |
|
"Data
Mining: How Companies Know Everything About You" by Joel Stein
(cover story Time Mar 21 2011) |
|
"The
Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Watchdog" by Justin Fox (article in Time
July 27, 2009) |
|
Home
Shopping: The Cult of the Snuggie, by M.J. Stephey (article in Time
February 2, 2009) |
| Shop
Till You Drop, by Larry Kudlow |
| Middle
East Shopping Malls: The Battle of the Brands |
|
Overcoming Consumerism
(anti-consumerism website) |
|
Not Buying
It: My Year Without Shopping, by Judith Levine (book review by
Marjorie Kehe in CSM, 3/2006) |
|
Buy,
Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds,
by Susan G. Thomas |
|
Behind
Consumption and Consumerism --Global Issues (global health &
environmental perspectives) |
| Creating
the Consumer, by Anup Shah (from global issues website) |
| All
Consuming Passion: Waking Up from the American Dream |
| Affluenza
(from online encyclopedia, refers to term used by those critical of
consumerism) |
| Affluenza
(teacher's guide PBS series on ills of consumerism) |
| Salvation
Through Consumption? |
| The
Sacred Santa: Religious
Dimensions of Consumer Culture by Dell deChant |
| quotes
related to shopping |
|
More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #26B: The More Is
Better Mentality
|
| Super
Size Me (from online encyclopedia about the documentary film and
related cultural trend) |
| Spoiled
Child (from online encyclopedia) |
| Living
Ever Larger--How Wretched Excess Became a Way of Life in Southern
California, by Patrick Kiger |
| Too
Much (website providing "commentary on excess and
inequality") |
| "Technology
Advances, Humans Supersize" by P. Cohen (health & human
evolution, 2011 NY Times article) |
| "Tiger
Woods Ex-Wife Bulldozes $12 million Home" by Shane Bacon (Jan 5
2011 Yahoo Sports article) |
| "Forget
Frugality, Focus on Earning More" by Ramit Sethi (Apr 28 2011 NY
Times article) |
| "Our
Super-Sized Kids--How America's Children Packed on the Pounds, by Jeffrey
Kluger (Time 6/23/08) |
| Book
Review of Better Not Bigger, book by Eben Fodor |
| I
Love My SUV, by Ray Keating |
| I
Love My SUV Despite Its MPG, by Colin Hurlock, editor at MSNBC |
| Chasing
the SUV Vote |
| Bigger
is Better (song lyrics) |
| The
Big Screen (a Stanford student's prank / commentary) |
| People of
Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character, by David M. Potter
(read at Google Books) |
| A
Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe (American consumer
excess is major theme in this 1998 novel; from online encyclopedia) |
|
American Mania -- When More is Not
Enough (book by director of UCLA Neuropsychiatric Inst.) |
|
Feature
Fatigue -- When Product Capabilities Become Too Much of a Good Thing (J.
of Marketing Research article) |
|
Quirky
Foes and Owners of Invading Monster Mansions (NY Times book review of Rattled
and Lapham Rising) |
|
quotes
about excess and related topics |
