May 29, 2021May 29, 2021 Oleg Komlik

Why is Northern Europe so Indebted? The Impact of Welfare on Household Debt

October 29, 2019November 21, 2020 Oleg Komlik

Manufacturing Personal Happiness

April 10, 2018August 14, 2019 Oleg Komlik

Commercialization and the Far Right: Consuming and Constituting Extremism

February 13, 2018August 19, 2019 Oleg Komlik

Being the 1%, or What It Means to Be Entitled

March 25, 2017June 12, 2021 Oleg Komlik

The Waste of the Progress

February 24, 2017March 19, 2017 Oleg Komlik

Fictionalizing the Economy and Reviewing Imagined Futures of Capitalism

February 12, 2017February 12, 2017 Oleg Komlik

“I listen to money singing… It is intensely sad.”

August 1, 2015June 14, 2016 Oleg Komlik

I shop therefore I am

February 13, 2015February 13, 2019 Oleg Komlik

Happy Valentine’s day, consumers! ;-)

January 10, 2015July 31, 2020 Oleg Komlik

You, Soros and Zizek’s “Cultural Capitalism”: We all BUY our redemption from being consumerists

November 27, 2014 Oleg Komlik

Black Friday + Conspicuous consumption (Thorstein Veblen) = “Happiness”

October 19, 2014June 23, 2017 Oleg Komlik

Jerry ‪Seinfeld‬ on ‪consumerism‬, ‪advertising‬ and ‪culture‬ of ‪consumption‬ :-)

August 28, 2014June 28, 2015 Oleg Komlik

Slavoj Žižek: Why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming?

August 14, 2014July 18, 2015 Oleg Komlik

“Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude” pulls together case studies on emerging lifestyles that balance ‪consumption‬ with the ‪environment‬

July 3, 2014 Oleg Komlik

In “Politics and Culture in an Age of Austerity” Amitai Etzioni argues that human contentment is perhaps best found outside of the high-growth, high-consumption paradigm