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Steven D. Silver
Consuming Knowledge: Studying Knowledge Use in Leisure and Work

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Description: While consumers are recognized as valuing market goods and services for the activities they can construct from them in the frameworks of several disciplines, consequences of the characteristics of goods and services they use in these activities have not been well studied. In this book, knowledge-yielding and conventional goods and services are contrasted as factors in the construction of activities that consumers engage in when they are not in the workplace. Consumers are seen as deciding on non-work activities and the inputs to these activities according to their objectives, and the values and accumulated skills they hold. It is suggested that knowledge content in these activities can be efficient for consumer objectives and also have important externalities through its effect on productivity at work and economic growth. The exposition seeks to elaborate these points and contribute to multi-disciplinary dialogue on consumption. + Introduction: Consuming Knowledge +… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0792386892
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Zygmunt Bauman
Consuming Life

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0745640028
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Zygmunt Bauman
Consuming Life

2007 y.
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Description: With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespersons. They all inhabit the same social space that is customarily described by the term lsquo,the marketrsquo,. The test they need to pass in order to acquire the social prizes they covet requires them to recast themselves as products capable of drawing attention to themselves. This subtle and pervasive transformation of consumers into commodities is the most important feature of the society of consumers. It is the hidden truth, the deepest and most closely guarded secret, of the consumer society in which we now live. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0745639798
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A. Fuat Firat
Consuming People: From Political Economy to Theaters of Consumption (Routledge Studies in Consumer Research)

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionLooks at people in the act of consumption and consumed by the act of consumption, combining academic analysis with a discussion of the possibilities for consuming people in the future. Previously only available in hardback. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415316200
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Garry Crawford
Consuming Sport: Fans, Sport and Culture

2004 y.
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ISBN: 0415288916
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Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace
Consuming Subjects

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Description: Consuming Subjects is an insightful exploration of the origin of the modern idea of women as shoppers. Kowaleski-Wallace considers the origins of current ideas about women and consumerism to call into question the `natural` link between women and the commodities they buy. While previous scholars have posited the nineteenth-century department store and arcade as the crucial place for understanding the emergence of the female consumer, Kowaleski-Wallace argues that the eighteenth century yields a keener understanding by allowing us to view the foundations of contemporary cultural practices. Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historical ideas, she surveys eighteenth-century literary texts, material objects -such as china- and cultural events to illuminate the ways in which women are both controlled and empowered through images of consumption. Kowaleski-Wallace links the rise of shopping to the appearance of modern pronography: like pornography,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0231105797
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Consuming Sustainability : Critical Social Analyses of Ecological Change

2005 y.
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Description: Book Description Examining several contemporary environmental controversies in Canada, including water consumption, food safety, and air pollution, this guide illustrates how a critical perspective can aid in understanding such complex social, economic, and political issues. Key concepts in environmental social science are introduced to clarify controversies and address broader questions such as How do our consumption decisions affect ecosystems? Can we rely on governments to maintain environmental well being? Do those living in rural areas see the environment differently from urban dwellers? and Is sustainability possible? The discussion both examines the disputes and demonstrates that ecological problems and their solutions are as much social and political as they are scientific. Activism resources at the end of each chapter are included as are suggestions on ways to reduce individual ecological footprints. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1552661555
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Wilfred Dolfsma
Consuming Symbolic Goods: Identity and Commitment, Values and Economics

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0415456363
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Suzanne K. Kaufman
Consuming Visions: Mass Culture And The Lourdes Shrine

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionPlastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike. Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion and commerce as a corruption of true spirituality. Suzanne K. Kaufman challenges these assumptions in her examination of the Lourdes pilgrimage in late nineteenth-century France. Consuming Visions offers new ways to interpret material forms of worship, female piety, and modern commercial culture. Kaufman argues that the melding of traditional pilgrimage activities with a newly developing mass culture produced fresh expressions of popular faith. For the devout women of humble origins who flocked to the shrine, this intensely exciting commercialized worship offered unprecedented opportunities to connect with the sacred and express their faith in God. New devotional activities at Lourdes transformed the act of pilgrimage: the train became a moving… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0801442486
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Rob Latham
Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption

— y.
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Description: From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys , from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth , Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Inspired by Marx`s use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the contradictory processes of empowerment and exploitation that characterize the youth-consumer system. While the vampire is a voracious consumer driven by a hunger for perpetual youth, the cyborg has incorporated the machineries of consumption into its own flesh. Powerful fusions of technology and desire, these paired images… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0226468925
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Mimi Sheller
Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies

— y.
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Description: From sugar to indentured laborers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been relentlessly consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past five hundred years. In this fascinating book, Mimi Sheller explores this troublesome history, investigating the complex mobilities of producers and consumers as well as material and cultural commodities consumed by tourists and outside settlers -- everything from sugar and coffee to slave labor and domestic servers to native music and natural resources. Consuming the Caribbean demonstrates how colonial exploitation of the Caribbean led directly to contemporary forms of consumption of the region and its products, aiming to trouble innocent indulgence in the pleasures of thoughtless consumption. This book is sure to change anyone`s opinion of this tropical paradise. [detailed...]

ISBN: 041525759X
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Alan Aldridge
Consumption (Key Concepts)

2003 y.
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ISBN: 0745625304
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Alan Aldridge
Consumption (Key Concepts)

— y.
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ISBN: 0745625290
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Robert Bocock
Consumption (Key Ideas)

— y.
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Description: Consumption provides a critical overview of major sociological approaches to this subject, discussing it in the context of both modern and postmodern societies. Robert Bocock offers a distinctive analysis of the ideology of consumerism and the role of consumption as a socio-cultural process. Bocock first examines the role of consumption in early modern Western society, and then analyzes its emergence in the early 20th century up through the 1990s. He also examines the contributions of leading writers in the field, including Veblen, Simmel, Marx, Gramsci, Weber, Bourdieu, Lacan and Baudrillard. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415069629
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Randall P. Mariger
Consumption Behavior and the Effects of Government Fiscal Policies (Harvard Economic Studies, 158)

— y.
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ISBN: 0674166353
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Reto Foellmi
Consumption Structure and Macroeconomics : Structural Change and the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThis book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which enables to analyze macroeconomic models consistent with these empirical facts. As a result, central macroeconomic phenomena are better understood: the reasons behind long-run growth, structural change, and the influence of inequality on innovations and growth. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540259910
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Donald Quataert
Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1992: An Introduction (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East)

— y.
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Description: Tracing a host of important and exciting topics relating to consumption, this book describes and analyzes the rise of mass fashion dress, changing fashions in clothing, the transcultural significance of tulip consumption, the rise of print advertising, the use of food as a marker of elite status, and the emergence of photographs as a consumer commodity. The emphasis on consumption rather than production offers new perspectives on the Ottoman and Middle East past, and by extension that of East and Southeast Asia as well as Africa. Its findings also invite comparisons with those in U.S. and European consumption history. Also included are chapters that offer guidance in the use of archival sources for research in consumption history and a methodological overview of the utility of consumption studies for Ottoman and Middle East history. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0791444325
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Ian Steedman
Consumption Takes Time: Implications for Economic Theory (Graz Schumpeter Lectures, 4)

— y.
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Description: Standard economic theory of consumer behaviour considers consumers` preferences, their incomes and commodity prices to be the determinants of consumption. However, consumption takes time and no consumer has more - or less - than 168 hours per week. This simple fact is almost invisible in standard theory, and takes the centre stage in this book. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415250994
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Consumption Tax Trends: VAT/GST And Excise Rates, Trends And Administration Issues

2005 y.
Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation &, Devel
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ISBN: 9264006761
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Hugh Mackay
Consumption and Everyday Life

1997 y.
Publisher: Open Univercity Press, Sage Publications
Description: Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The rich and idiosyncratic nature of local consumption practices is illustrated through cases from different parts of the world. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-7619-5437-6, 0-7619-5438-4
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Yoram S. Carmeli, Kalman Applbaum
Consumption and Market Society in Israel

— y.
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Description: Israel has been remodelling itself on Western consumer societies for the last twenty years. Most Israelis now aspire to the `accessories` of Western lifestyles--private automobiles, cell phones, shopping malls, and travel abroad. International franchises such as McDonald`s, Office Depot, Benetton, IKEA, and Toys `R` Us increasingly feature in the Israeli landscape, and advertising has emerged as a potent force. Consumption and Market Society in Israel shows how different groups--kibbutzniks, Israeli Arabs, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, new immigrants, and middle-class Israelis--alternately exhibit a suspicion towards and enthusiasm for the consumer market society. Lifestyle consumerism is seen alternately as destructive to community and nation, or providing a sense of unity and familiarity in a time of political turmoil. This book is a timely contribution to a hotly debated topic. It is not only innovative in its research, but is the first work to explore fully the significance of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1859736890
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Daniel T. Slesnick
Consumption and Social Welfare : Living Standards and their Distribution in the United States

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionConsumption-based explanation of the growth of living standards and the decrease in inequality and poverty. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521021766
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Daniel T. Slesnick
Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and Their Distribution in the United States

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Description: The most widely-cited social welfare statistics in the United States are based on tabulations on family income. The picture that emerges is cause for concern, median family income has hardly changed over the past 25 years while inequality has increased and poverty remained persistently high. Yet, consumption-based statistics as employed in this work yield rigorous and quite different estimates of real individual and social welfare. Closely linked to economic theory, Professor Slesnick`s examination of standards of living, inequality, and poverty reveal that the standard of U.S. living has grown significantly while inequality and poverty have decreased to relatively low levels. His assessment is drawn from extended period data in order to chart long-run trends. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521497205
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Edward A. Comor
Consumption and the Globalization Project: International Hegemony and the Annihilation of Time (International Political Economy)

2008 y.
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Description: This is the first book to assess capitalist consumption in terms of its international political economy implications. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0230522246
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Woodruff D. Smith
Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800

— y.
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Description: Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensiveand much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural implications. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415933285
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Harold Wilhite
Consumption and the Transformation of Everyday Life: A View from South India (Consumption and Public Life)

2008 y.
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Description: In this book, Harold Wilhite makes an important new contribution to the interpretation of changing consumption in India, using an ethnographic approach to interrogate the rapid growth in the consumption of household durables, beauty and cleanliness producs, and exploring how the engagement of local practices with the globalizing economy result in change. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0230542549
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Beng-Huat Chua, Chua Beng-Huat
Consumption in Asia : Lifestyles and Identities (The New Rich in Asia Series)

— y.
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Description: Challenging and contemporary, this collection of essays examines the processes which have transformed underdeveloped countries into full-blown consumer societies. Featuring contributors from These essays give the first detailed analysis of consumerism within East and South-East Asia and contain case studies from Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore and Japan. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415213118
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Jeffrey James
Consumption, Globalization and Development

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Description: This volume is concerned with the complexities of the relationship between globalization and different groups of consumers in developing countries. Globalization, it is argued, can yield frustration and disappointment as well as welfare gains for consumers, it may, but does not necessarily, displace local products and via the rapid recent expansion of the mass media, it offers policymakers new opportunities to deal with acute social problems. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312230567
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Roy Carr-Hill, John Lintott
Consumption, Jobs and the Environment: A Fourth Way?

— y.
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Description: Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view. It threatens ecological catastrophe while perpetuating poverty. Roy Carr-Hill and John Lintott propose an alternative policy framework based explicitly on welfare and suggest where cuts in consumption, working hours and ecological risks might be made most usefully. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0333800095
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Daniel Miller
Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (Four Volume Set)

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Description: Ranging from the classic discussions of a century and more ago, to the latest evidence for the diversity of consumption as it is actually practiced. These volumes comprise the most extensive guide to past and current research on the topic of consumptionthat has ever been created. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415242665
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Davide Gualerzi
Consumpton and Growth: Recovery and Structural Change in the U.S. Economy

— y.
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Description: ?Here is a macroeconomic account of consumption based from the start on innovation and growth, by-passing decades of fruitless debate. Davide Gualerzi presents a new theoretical framework, the dynamics of ?market creation?, and marshalls evidence for it from the US economy in the 1980s. This is a major contribution to the macroeconomics of structural change.? - Ed Nell, New School for Social Research, New York ??The end of all production is consumption? said Adam Smith more than two centuries ago. In this book, Davide Gualerzi brushes aside all literature on static consumer preferences and proposes a dynamic, modern re-interpretation of Smith?s famous statement. Gualerzi marries a long run extension of Keynes?s principle of effective demand with Schumpeter?s insights into the driving forces of technological, market and organisational innovations. The resulting model of structural dynamics shows remarkable richness. The author… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1840647108
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