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How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
W. W. Norton
March 2007
On Sale: March 19, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0393049612
EAN: 9780393049619
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming
U.S. society.
An apt sequel to Benjamin R.
Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed
offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are
infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and
targets children as consumers in a market where there are
never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to
sell, consumer capitalism specializes today in the
manufacture not of goods but of needs.
This
provocative culmination of Barber's lifelong study of
democracy and capitalism shows how the infantilist ethos
deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces
public goods with private commodities. Traditional liberal
democratic society is colonized by an all-pervasive market
imperative. Public space is privatized. Identity is branded.
Our world, homogenized. With brilliance and depth, Barber
confronts the likely consequences for our children, our
liberty, and our citizenship, and shows finally how citizens
can resist and transcend the civic schizophrenia with which
consumerism has infected them.
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