Consumerism

When there are too many choices, there is no choice.

When there are too many choices, there is no choice.

Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties.

Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties.

A comprehensive review of the techniques and applications of descriptive analysis Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline used to evoke, measure, analyse and interpret responses to products perceived through the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.

A comprehensive review of the techniques and applications of descriptive analysis Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline used to evoke, measure, analyse and interpret responses to products perceived through the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.

REIN MASTERFULLY CAPTURES WHERE [CONSUMERS] HAVE BEEN AND WHERE THEY DREAM OF GOING.

REIN MASTERFULLY CAPTURES WHERE [CONSUMERS] HAVE BEEN AND WHERE THEY DREAM OF GOING.

A ground-breaking exploration of the Chinese elite's consumption of luxury products and their attitudes toward luxury goods.

A ground-breaking exploration of the Chinese elite's consumption of luxury products and their attitudes toward luxury goods.

Can an American family live without Chinese-made goods?

In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.

In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.

This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which consumers and citizens turn to the market as their arena for politics.

Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which consumers and citizens turn to the market as their arena for politics.

A bold new interpretation of ''consumer revolution'' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.

A bold new interpretation of ''consumer revolution'' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.

A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychologyfrom the pioneering expert on psychological targeting.

The massive outpouring of consumer products available today might alone lead one to ask "e;How much is enough?

Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed.

What does it mean to be young and Muslim today?

What does it mean to be young and Muslim today?

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that ';incredible things are happening in this world.

Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India.

Published in cooperation with the William P.

Consumption Intensified examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in Sao Paulo redefined their class during Brazil's economic crisis of 1981-1994.

Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology.

The overall experience of the buying process ultimately determines whether consumers will pay money for a product or service: they weigh what they are purchasing with their responses to the marketing message, the advertising, the sales approach, the website, the interaction with company personnel, and more.

The Industrial Revolution was previously understood as having awakened an enormous, unquenchable thirst for material consumption.

Credit and debt appear to be natural, permanent facets of Americans' lives, but a debt-based economy and debt-financed lifestyles are actually recent inventions.

In the age of Ikea Hackers and salvagepunks, this book charts the emergence of "e;rugged consumers"e; who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires.

A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "e;the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly.

A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "e;the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly.

Some scholars believe that Jesus' punitive instructions about possessions and material goods amount to little more than antiquated sayings.

We now call it The Great Realisationand, yes, since then there have been many.

For mums and dads in a rush, buying convenience foods is a reality but ingredient labels often read like a complicated science experiment.

Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace.

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture.

Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world.

We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work.

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers.

Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world.

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture.

Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world.

We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work.