{"product_id":"consumption-and-its-consequences","title":"Consumption and Its Consequences","description":"This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of  today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does  being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and  why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly  insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile  curbs on consumption with goals such as reducing poverty and social  inequality? \u003cp\u003eMiller responds to these questions by proposing feasible and, where  possible, currently available alternatives, drawn mainly from his own  original ethnographic research. Here you will find shopping analysed as a  technology of love, clothing that sidesteps politics in tackling issues  of immigration. There is an alternative theory of value that does not  assume the economy is intelligent, scientific, moral or immoral. We see  Coca-Cola as an example of localization, not globalization. We learn why  the response to climate change will work only when we reverse our  assumptions about the impact of consumption on citizens. Given the  evidence that consumption is now central to the way we create and  maintain our core values and relationships, the conclusions differ  dramatically from conventional and accepted views as to its consequences  for humanity and the planet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54240713146712,"sku":"9780745661087","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780745661087_7d3a68cd-976b-49ce-9986-cec50909052a.jpg?v=1777619731","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/consumption-and-its-consequences","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}