
Tag: consumption


Manufacturing Personal Happiness

Commercialization and the Far Right: Consuming and Constituting Extremism

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

The Waste of the Progress

Fictionalizing the Economy and Reviewing Imagined Futures of Capitalism

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

I shop therefore I am

Happy Valentine’s day, consumers! ;-)
You, Soros and Zizek’s “Cultural Capitalism”: We all BUY our redemption from being consumerists

Black Friday + Conspicuous consumption (Thorstein Veblen) = “Happiness”
Jerry Seinfeld on consumerism, advertising and culture of consumption :-)

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

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

Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Postcommunist Countries and demolishing myths about markets, money and globalization

Theory in Pictures: Consumption / Demand in Economics

Adam Smith: “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.”

What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire

Economy in Changing Society: Consumptions, Markets, Organizations

The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
