|
More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #26A: The
Consumerist |
|
Consumerism
(from online encyclopedia) |
|
Economic Materialism
(from online encyclopedia) |
|
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 |
|
Consumerism
and the New Capitalism (essay by R. Cronk) |
| The
Center for Consumer Freedom |
| The
Center for Consumer Freedom -- their deception exposed |
| 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 |
| "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) |
| 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
|
| Living
Ever Larger--How Wretched Excess Became a Way of Life in Southern
California, by Patrick Kiger |
| Conspicuous
Consumption (from online encyclopedia) |
| McMansions
(from online encyclopedia) |
| Super
Size Me (from online encyclopedia about the documentary film and
related cultural trend) |
| "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 |
| Sport
Utility Vehicle (from online encyclopedia) |
| 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 |
