Consumerism

Economy is embedded in ongoing concrete social networks, and economic processes are increasingly international in character. Three interrelated pro...

Consumers, manufacturers, and auto dealers use publicly available auto recall information differently. Chapter 1 addresses: how consumers and indus...

Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to ad...

The global phenomenon of political consumerism is known through such diverse manifestations as corporate boycotts, increased preferences for organi...

Gaian Economics is the second volume in the Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series and sets out to explore how we can develop healthy and abun...

Rescuing the Church . . . examines how people are initiated into a consumer culture during childhood and thus drawn into pursuing a vocation as con...

Storytelling-Case Archetype Decoding and Assignment Manual (SCADAM) reviews cultural and tourism/hospitality applications of Carl Jung's work on ar...

Public alarm about the spate of recent product recalls, particularly of toys and other products used by children, has focused attention on the Cons...

In today''s globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman''s blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique...

In today''''s digital economy, consumer information is more important than ever. Companies are using this information in innovative ways to provide...

A definitive history of consumer activism, Buying Power traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation's founding, revealing tha...

The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and thingnes...

Sports are not what they used to be. New publicly funded stadiums resemble shopping malls. Fans compete for cash prizes in fantasy sports league...