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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Serie: What is Political Economy?
- Sprache: Englisch
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.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Series Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
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
End User License Agreement
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1
Anheuser-Busch advertisement, from
Theatre Magazine
, February 1905; www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/buschtonic.html
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1
World domestic material consumption, 1970–2017, by material group
Figure 5.2
This is your mobile phone
Figure 5.3
Marine cargo and tanker traffic, 23 May 2019
Chapter 7
Figure 7.1
Anti-slavery consumer labels, 1820 and 2019
Figure 7.2
Malling is a thing: as malls suffer in many places due to the rise of online sho...
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Series Title
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Work
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Copyright page
Copyright © Ian Hudson and Mark Hudson 2021
The right of Ian Hudson and Mark Hudson to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in 2021 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3537-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3538-5 (pb)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hudson, Ian, 1967- author. | Hudson, Mark, 1971 June 27- author.
Title: Consumption / Ian Hudson, Mark Hudson.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Series: What is political economy? | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A crystal-clear guide to how consumption greases the wheels of modern capitalism”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020024396 (print) | LCCN 2020024397 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509535378 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509535385 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509535392 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Consumption (Economics) | Capitalism.
Classification: LCC HB801 .H83 2021 (print) | LCC HB801 (ebook) | DDC 339.4/7--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020024396
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Acknowledgements
This book benefited tremendously from the behind-the-scenes work of talented people whose names don’t appear anywhere on the front cover. We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their careful reading and helpful comments. The team at Polity, particularly George Owers, Julia Davies, Evie Deavall, and Caroline Richmond, were also constructive and patient as we went through the writing process. Finally we would like to extend a huge thank you to our three excellent research assistants: Katherine Burley, Rylan Ramnarace and Jillian Stefanson. The money to hire them came from the Undergraduate Research Award program and the Faculty of Arts’ Global Political Economy Research Fund, University of Manitoba.
