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Consumption
Taschenbuch von Ian Hudson (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
Consumption 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.

In 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.

This 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.
Consumption 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.

In 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.

This 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.
Über den Autor
Ian Hudson is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba.
Mark Hudson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

1 The Meanings of Consumption

What Are We Talking About? Consumption and Political Economy

Competing Themes in the History of Consumption

The Rest of the Book

2 An Aspiration for All the World: Championing Individual Freedom of Choice

Introduction

From Classical to Neoclassical Economics: Consumers as Rational Maximizers

Friendly Amendments: Alterations to the Theory with Similar Implications

Conclusion

3 The System: Capitalist Consumerism

Introduction

Capitalist Commodity Production: Naming the System

Commodity Fetishism

Consumption and Jobs

The Evolution of Capitalist Commodity Consumption in the US after World War II

Conclusion

4 Private Choices, Social Problems

Introduction

What You Don't Know Might Hurt You: Information Asymmetry

You're Not as Clever as You Think: Behavioural Economics

Relative Consumption

Created Wants

The Androcentric Consumer

Conclusion

5 The Shopocalypse?

"Ten Ways to Reduce Your Impact"

Blindfolded

Bloated: The Problem of Scale

Embedded Consumption and the Limits of Consumer Environmentalism

Conclusion: Consumption as Ecological Practice

Note

6 Consumption, Power and Liberation

Class and Consumption

Consumers of the World, Express Yourselves!

Consumption and Gender

7 Shopping Police

Shopping as Power

Easy on the Surface, Hard Underneath

Terror of the CEO?

Saviour of the Worker, Farmer or Forest?

Too Much to Bear: The Trials and Tribulations of a Label

The Commodification of Politics?

Conclusion

References

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Volkswirtschaft
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 190 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509535385
ISBN-10: 1509535381
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hudson, Ian
Hudson, Mark
Hersteller: Polity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 216 x 139 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Hudson (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,255 kg
Artikel-ID: 132514755
Über den Autor
Ian Hudson is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba.
Mark Hudson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

1 The Meanings of Consumption

What Are We Talking About? Consumption and Political Economy

Competing Themes in the History of Consumption

The Rest of the Book

2 An Aspiration for All the World: Championing Individual Freedom of Choice

Introduction

From Classical to Neoclassical Economics: Consumers as Rational Maximizers

Friendly Amendments: Alterations to the Theory with Similar Implications

Conclusion

3 The System: Capitalist Consumerism

Introduction

Capitalist Commodity Production: Naming the System

Commodity Fetishism

Consumption and Jobs

The Evolution of Capitalist Commodity Consumption in the US after World War II

Conclusion

4 Private Choices, Social Problems

Introduction

What You Don't Know Might Hurt You: Information Asymmetry

You're Not as Clever as You Think: Behavioural Economics

Relative Consumption

Created Wants

The Androcentric Consumer

Conclusion

5 The Shopocalypse?

"Ten Ways to Reduce Your Impact"

Blindfolded

Bloated: The Problem of Scale

Embedded Consumption and the Limits of Consumer Environmentalism

Conclusion: Consumption as Ecological Practice

Note

6 Consumption, Power and Liberation

Class and Consumption

Consumers of the World, Express Yourselves!

Consumption and Gender

7 Shopping Police

Shopping as Power

Easy on the Surface, Hard Underneath

Terror of the CEO?

Saviour of the Worker, Farmer or Forest?

Too Much to Bear: The Trials and Tribulations of a Label

The Commodification of Politics?

Conclusion

References

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Volkswirtschaft
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 190 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509535385
ISBN-10: 1509535381
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hudson, Ian
Hudson, Mark
Hersteller: Polity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 216 x 139 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Hudson (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,255 kg
Artikel-ID: 132514755
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