{"id":3092,"date":"1997-11-14T14:18:29","date_gmt":"1997-11-14T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2020-05-11T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:34:58","slug":"volume-2-the-consumer-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/1997\/11\/14\/volume-2-the-consumer-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 2: The Consumer Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and David Kiron<\/span><\/p>\n

Editors Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997) 385 pages<\/span><\/p>\n

Sample Chapter: Consumption and the Environment<\/a><\/p>\nFor more information or to order<\/a>\n

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Table of Contents<\/h3>
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  1. Scope and Definition<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Neva R. Goodwin<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Asking How Much is Enough?
      \nAlan Durning<\/li>\n
    2. Consumption, Well-Being, and Virtue
      \nDavid Crocker<\/li>\n
    3. The Original Affluent Society
      \nMarshall SahlinsPart One: Examination
      \nWilliam Leiss<\/li>\n
    4. Will Raising the Incomes of All Increase the Happiness of All?
      \nRichard Easterlin<\/li>\n
    5. The Expansion of Consumption
      \nAllan Schnaiberg<\/li>\n
    6. New Analytic Bases for an Economic Critique of Consumer Society
      \nJuliet Schor<\/li>\n
    7. Consumption: The New Wave of Research in the Humanities and the Social SciencesColin Campbell<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        \n
      1. <\/span>Consumption in the Affluent Society<\/strong>
        \nDavid Kiron<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          \n
        1. Traumas of Time and Money in Prosperity and Depression
          \nGary Cross<\/li>\n
        2. The Insidious Cycle of Work and Spend
          \nJuliet Schor<\/li>\n
        3. Work, Consumption and the Joyless Consumer
          \nRaymond Benton, Jr.<\/li>\n
        4. The Study of Consumption, Object Domains, Ideology and Interests and Towards a Theory of Consumption
          \nDaniel Miller<\/li>\n
        5. Notes on the Relationship between Production and Consumption
          \nAlan Warde<\/li>\n
        6. The Political Economy of Opulence
          \nHarry Johnson<\/li>\n
        7. The Increasing Scarcity of Time
          \nStaffan Linder<\/li>\n
        8. Part Two: The Commercialization Bias
          \nFred Hirsch<\/li>\n
        9. Changing Consumption Patterns
          \nAlladi Venkates<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          III.\u00a0<\/span>Family, Gender and Socialization<\/strong>
          \nDavid Kiron and Seymour Bellin<\/p>\n

            \n
          1. The Domestic Production of Monies
            \nViviana Zelizer<\/li>\n
          2. Sit-Coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950’s Homemaker
            \nMary Beth Haralovich<\/li>\n
          3. Gender as a Commodity
            \nSusan Willis<\/li>\n
          4. Gender and Consumption: Transcending the Feminine?
            \nA. Fuat Firat<\/li>\n
          5. Meanings of Material Possessions as Reflections of Identity
            \nHelga Dittmar<\/li>\n
          6. Friendship or Commodities? The Road Not Taken: Friendship, Consumerism, and Happiness
            \nRobert Lane<\/li>\n
          7. Conclusion: Playing with Culture
            \nStephen Kline<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
              \n
            1. <\/span>The History of Consumer Society
              \n<\/strong>Frank Ackerman<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                \n
              1. The History of Consumption: A Literature Review and Consumer Guide
                \nGrant McCracken<\/li>\n
              2. Changes in English and Anglo-American Consumption from 1550 to 1800
                \nCarole Shammas<\/li>\n
              3. Pictorial Prints and the Growth of Consumerism: Class and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Culture
                \nChandra Mukerji<\/li>\n
              4. The Quaker Ethic
                \nDavid Shi<\/li>\n
              5. The Consumer Revolution of Eighteenth-century England
                \nNeil McKendrick<\/li>\n
              6. Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution
                \nBen Fine and Ellen Leopold<\/li>\n
              7. Learning to Consume: Early Department Stores and the Shaping of the Modern Consumer Culture (1800-1914)
                \nRudi Laermans<\/li>\n
              8. From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and the Therapeutic Roots of Consumer Culture
                \nT.J. Jackson Lears<\/li>\n
              9. The Consumer’s Comfort and Dream
                \nGary Cross<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                1. <\/span>Foundations of Economic Theories of Consumption
                  \n<\/strong>Frank Ackerman<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                    \n
                  1. Materialism and Modern Political Philosophy
                    \nJoel Jay Kassiola<\/li>\n
                  2. The History of Economics from a Humanistic Perspective
                    \nMark Lutz and Kenneth Lux<\/li>\n
                  3. Capital, Labour, and the Commodity-Form
                    \nMartyn J. Lee<\/li>\n
                  4. Institutional Economics and Consumption
                    \nDavid Hamilton<\/li>\n
                  5. Keynes’ Economic Thought and the Theory of Consumer Behavior
                    \nS.A. Drakopoulos<\/li>\n
                  6. Income, Saving, and the Theory of Consumer Behavior
                    \nJames Duesenberry<\/li>\n
                  7. Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand
                    \nHarvey Leibenstein<\/li>\n
                  8. The Standard of Living and the Capacity to Save
                    \nRagnar Nurkse<\/li>\n
                  9. The Imperatives of Consumer Demand and the Dependence Effect
                    \nJohn Kenneth Galbraith<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                    1. <\/span>Critiques and Alternatives in Economic Theory<\/strong>
                      \nFrank Ackerman<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                        \n
                      1. Alternative Approaches to Consumer Behavior
                        \nRaymond Benton, Jr.<\/li>\n
                      2. The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions
                        \nPaula England<\/li>\n
                      3. Economics, Psychology, and Consumer Behavior
                        \nBen Fine and Ellen Leopold<\/li>\n
                      4. Behavior and the Concept of Preference
                        \nAmartya Sen<\/li>\n
                      5. The Psychology and Economics of Motivation
                        \nTibor Scitovsky<\/li>\n
                      6. The Neglected Realm of Social Scarcity
                        \nFred Hirsch<\/li>\n
                      7. The Demand for Unobservable and Other Nonpositional Goods
                        \nRobert Frank<\/li>\n
                      8. Change and Innovation in the Technology of Consumption
                        \nKelvin Lancaster<\/li>\n
                      9. Procrastination and Obedience
                        \nGeorge Akerlof<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                        VII.\u00a0<\/span>Perpetuating Consumer Culture: Media, Advertising and Wants Creation
                        \n<\/strong>David Kiron<\/p>\n

                          \n
                        1. The Distorted Mirror: Reflections on the Unintended Consequences of Advertising
                          \nRichard Pollay<\/li>\n
                        2. Modern Consumerism and Imaginative Hedonism
                          \nColin Campbell<\/li>\n
                        3. Social Comparison, Advertising, and Consumer Discontent
                          \nMarsha Richins<\/li>\n
                        4. Part Two: Diagnosis
                          \nWilliam Leiss, Stephen Kline, and Sut Jhally<\/li>\n
                        5. Introduction
                          \nT.J. Jackson Lears<\/li>\n
                        6. Advertising
                          \nBen Fine and Ellen Leopold<\/li>\n
                        7. Part One: The Emergence of American Television: The Formative Years and Part Four: Toward a New Video Order: The 1980s
                          \nJ. Fred MacDonald<\/li>\n
                        8. Television and the Structuring of Experience
                          \nRobert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentimhalyi<\/li>\n
                        9. Theories of Consumption in Media Studies
                          \nDavid Morley<\/li>\n
                        10. Household Debt Problems: Toward a Micro-Macro Linkage
                          \nSamuel Cameron<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                          VIII.\u00a0<\/span>Consumption and the Environment
                          \n<\/strong>Jonathan Harris<\/p>\n

                            \n
                          1. The Allocation and Distribution of Resources
                            \nMark Sagoff<\/li>\n
                          2. Market and Non-Market Determinants of Private Consumption and their Impacts on the Environment
                            \nMario Cogoy<\/li>\n
                          3. Consumption: Value-Added, Physical Transformations and Welfare
                            \nHerman Daly<\/li>\n
                          4. Creating the Affluent Society
                            \nClive Ponting<\/li>\n
                          5. Natural Resource Consumption
                            \nWorld Resources Institute<\/li>\n
                          6. The Environmental Costs of Consumption
                            \nAlan Durning<\/li>\n
                          7. Creating a Sustainable Materials Economy
                            \nJohn Young and Aaron Sachs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                              \n
                            1. <\/span>Globalization and Consumer Culture<\/strong>
                              \nKevin Gallagher<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                \n
                              1. Development and the Elimination of Poverty
                                \nNathan Keyfitz<\/li>\n
                              2. Third World Consumer Culture
                                \nRussell Belk<\/li>\n
                              3. Positional Goods, Conspicuous Consumption and the International Demonstration Effect Reconsidered
                                \nJeffrey James<\/li>\n
                              4. Galbraith Revisited: Advertising in Non-Affluent Societies
                                \nJeffrey James<\/li>\n
                              5. The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism in the Third World and The Culture Ideology of Consumerism in Urban China: Some Findings from a Survey in Shanghai
                                \nLeslie Sklair<\/li>\n
                              6. Transnational Advertising: Some Consideration of the Impact on Peripheral Societies
                                \nNoreen Janus<\/li>\n
                              7. Transnational Corporations and Third World Consumption: Implications for Competitive Strategies
                                \nRhys Jenkins<\/li>\n
                              8. Gross National Consumption in the United States: Implications for Third World Development
                                \nThomas Walz and Edward Canda<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                  \n
                                1. <\/span>Visions of an Alternative
                                  \n<\/strong>Neva R. Goodwin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                    \n
                                  1. Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
                                    \nJohn Maynard Keynes<\/li>\n
                                  2. Alternatives to Mass Consumption
                                    \nJerome Segal<\/li>\n
                                  3. Exiting the Squirrel Cage
                                    \nJuliet Schor<\/li>\n
                                  4. How to Bring Joy into Economics
                                    \nTibor Scitovsky<\/li>\n
                                  5. Alternatives: Qualitative Growth
                                    \nFred Block<\/li>\n
                                  6. New Alternatives
                                    \nPaul Wachtel<\/li>\n
                                  7. A Culture of Permanence
                                    \nAlan Durning<\/li>\n
                                  8. Living More Simply and Civilization Revitalization
                                    \nDuane Elgin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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