{"product_id":"consumption-hardback-9781509535378","title":"Consumption (Hardback) 9781509535378","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eConsumption\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIan Hudson (Author), Mark Hudson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509535378, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 December 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e190 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book invites readers on a lively tour across the terrain of consumption in a briskly paced guide to mainstream economic theory and critical political economy. It is a highly engaging book that will appeal to those wishing to secure a deeper understanding of what it means to consume.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Pietrykowski, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is a sign of the consumer fetishism that pervades our society that good poiltical-economic works on consumption that do not simply fall prey to their subject matter and that retain a critical perspective are extremely hard to find. This book, though clearly written for classroom use, belongs in the same broad tradition as Thorstein Veblen’s \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of the Leisure Class\u003c\/i\u003e, John Kenneth Galbraith’s \u003ci\u003eThe Affluent Society\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Dawson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Consumer Trap\u003c\/i\u003e, and Naomi Klein’s \u003ci\u003eNo Logo\u003c\/i\u003e. Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Bellamy Foster, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and – if they can afford the price – their wildest desires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this new book, Ian and Mark Hudson critically examine how consumption has been understood in economic theory before analyzing its centrality to our social lives and function in contemporary capitalism. They also outline the consequences it has for people and nature, consequences routinely made invisible in the shopping mall or online catalogue. Hudson and Hudson show, in an approachable manner, how patterns of consumption are influenced by cultures, individual preferences and identity formation before arguing that underlying these determinants is the unavoidable need within capitalism to realize profit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis accessible and comprehensive book will be essential reading for students and scholars of political economy, economics and economic sociology, as well as any reader who wants to confront their own practices of consumption in a meaningful way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cp\u003e1 The Meanings of Consumption\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Are We Talking About? Consumption and Political Economy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompeting Themes in the History of Consumption\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rest of the Book\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 An Aspiration for All the World: Championing Individual Freedom of Choice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Classical to Neoclassical Economics: Consumers as Rational Maximizers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendly Amendments: Alterations to the Theory with Similar Implications\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The System: Capitalist Consumerism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapitalist Commodity Production: Naming the System\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommodity Fetishism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumption and Jobs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of Capitalist Commodity Consumption in the US after World War II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Private Choices, Social Problems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat You Don’t Know Might Hurt You: Information Asymmetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou’re Not as Clever as You Think: Behavioural Economics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelative Consumption\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreated Wants\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Androcentric Consumer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Shopocalypse?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Ten Ways to Reduce Your Impact”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlindfolded\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBloated: The Problem of Scale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmbedded Consumption and the Limits of Consumer Environmentalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Consumption as Ecological Practice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Consumption, Power and Liberation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClass and Consumption\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumers of the World, Express Yourselves!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumption and Gender\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Shopping Police\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShopping as Power\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEasy on the Surface, Hard Underneath\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerror of the CEO?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaviour of the Worker, Farmer or Forest?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToo Much to Bear: The Trials and Tribulations of a Label\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Commodification of Politics?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economics%20%5BKC%5D%22\"\u003eKC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441795920152,"sku":"9781509535378","price":38.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509535378.jpg?v=1785025852","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/consumption-hardback-9781509535378","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}