Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole [Paperback]

Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book. Jackson Lears Barber delivers a frightening analysis of the way consumerism is vitiating shoppers in the United States and around the world. This lifelong study of the effects of capitalism and privatization reveals a pervasiveness of branding and homogenization from which there is no turning back. A remarkable book about the shifting nature of capitalism&Beguiling. [Barber's] thesis has genuine bite. US