2003, ISBN: 9780415944687

When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new genera… Meer...

When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls and the desolation they leave behind. Written by one of the most insightful critics of American commercialism, The Business of America probes the forces that have transformed citizens into consumers eager to take as much as they can from the planet. From on-line shopping to spectator sports to the cash-and-carry ethos of political campaigns, Saul Landau decodes the subtle ways in which advertising images tell us to correct our inadequacies with more things: SUVs, credit cards, air conditioning, video games. The winds of change are blowing, Landau shows, from resurgent student protests for underpaid janitors to the Group of 21, the developing countries that stopped the World Trade Organization dead in its tracks in 2003. Eschewing nostalgia for a simpler time—a less-interconnected world that can never return-The Business of America shows how we as citizens can regain our identities, stripping away the plastic overlay of consumerism. New Textbooks>Hardcover>Current Affairs>Domestic Affairs>Domestic Affairs, Taylor & Francis Core >2 >T<

ISBN: 9780415944687

You Are What You Buy: When Consumers Replace Citizens You-Are-What-You-Buy~~Saul-Landau Current Affairs>Domestic Affairs>Domestic Affairs Hardcover, Taylor & Francis

2004, ISBN: 0415944686

Landau, Saul, Landau, Landau (Auteur) - Paru le 01/06/2004 Livre - Livre, [PU: Routledge]

2004, ISBN: 9780415944687

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Business Business eBook, Taylor and Francis

2004, ISBN: 9780415944687

How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Routledge], Routledge, 2004