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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #26A: The
Consumerist |
|
Consumer
Bill of Rights (from online encyclopedia) |
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Consumerist
(online encyclopedia article about the consumer affairs blog) |
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The
National Consumer Law Center ("for consumers" page from
non-profit dedicated to "advancing fairness in the marketplace for
all") |
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link
to Consumerist blog |
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Marketing
and Consumerism (Canadian educational website) |
| Consumer's
Union / Consumer Reports Magazine |
| Links
to articles about Data Mining and Consumerism (from The
Consumerist) |
| The
Luxury Institute (website of group "committed to delivering
objective and accurate insights into the behaviors and attitudes of
affluent consumers") |
| The
Story of Stuff, with Annie Leonard (20 minute look at
"the underside of our production and consumption patterns") |
| Phishing
for Fools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by G. Akerlof &
R. Shiller
(book review in The Economist
September 19 2015) |
| Stuffocation
by James Wallman (review by Steven Poole of this 2015 book in The
Guardian) |
| Fine
Print by David Cay Johnston (read excerpt of 2012 book re: how big
corporations rip off consumers) |
| Brainwashed:
Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy by
Martin Lindstrom (more on this 2011 book) |
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"Watches
and Wonders 2015: What the world's one percent wear on their wrists"
by Stephy Chung
(reported on CNN October
4 2015)
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| "Buying Partisan: Voting With Your Wallet"
(article from The Economist September 13 2014) |
| "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:
Caveat Vendor" (article from The Economist Feb 1 2014) |
| "Brands
Finding it Hard to Adapt to Age of Scepticism" (article from The Economist Feb 1 2014) |
| "The
Economic Waste of Christmas Giving?" (report by Paul Solman
on PBS News Hour December 24, 2013) |
| "Chinese
Consumers Spent A Record $5.7 Billion On Singles' Day" by Hayley
Peterson ( November 11 2013 article from Business Insider) |
| "Shopping:
The Emporium Strikes Back" (article from The Economist July 13 2013) |
| "The
Science Behind Gifting" (December 3 2012 article from
The Wall Street Journal) |
| "The Tyranny of Choice: You Choose"
(article from The Economist Dec 18 2010) |
| "The Magic of Good Service"
(article on The Economist September 2 2012) |
| "The
Genius of QVC," by Megan McArdle (June 2010 The Atlantic article
about the shopping network) |
| "Powerless
Consumers Spend More" by Adam Galinsky (article from Sept 22 2008
Advertising Age) |
| Buyology:
Truths and Lies About Why We Buy, by Martin Lindstrom (read excerpts
from 2008 book) |
|
Consumerism
and the New Capitalism (essay by R. Cronk) |
| The
Center for Consumer Freedom |
| The
Center for Consumer Freedom -- their deception exposed |
| The Consuming Instinct by Gad Saad
(2011 book by marketing professor and Psychology Today blogger) |
| Why
We Buy--The Science of Shopping, by Paco Underhill (read
excerpts from this 2008 book at Google Books) |
| Harvard
Design School Guide to Shopping, by Rem Koolhaas (book review of this
800 page volume) |
| Life
is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore, by
Chua Beng Huat (book review) |
| Temples
of Consumption: Shopping Malls As Secular Cathedrals |
| Economics
Notes: Your Role as a Consumer |
| Shopping
is Patriotic, Leaders Say |
| For
American Consumers, How Much is Enough? by Jeffrey Shaffer (May, 2007
CSM article) |
| The
Moral Nature of Free Enterprise |
| Blippy.com
(website providing "a fun and easy way to see and
discuss the things people are buying") |
| "Wake
Up and Sell the Coffee," by Barbara Kiviat (article on selling
high priced coffee to affluent consumers) |
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"Guilt
Won't Stop Impulsive Shoppers, Researchers Say" (2007 CBC
article) |
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Reviews
on Amazon: Five Star Fakes (report from The Economist October
24 2015)
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"Online Retailing: A Return to Santa"
(article about hard to please online shoppers in Europe from The Economist
December 21 2013) |
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"Sex and
Advertising: Retail Therapy" (historical perspective from Dec 17
2011 The Economist) |
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"Data
Mining: How Companies Know Everything About You" by Joel Stein
(cover story Time Mar 21 2011) |
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"The
Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Watchdog" by Justin Fox (article in Time
July 27, 2009) |
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Home
Shopping: The Cult of the Snuggie, by M.J. Stephey (article in Time
February 2, 2009) |
| Shop
Till You Drop, by Larry Kudlow |
| Middle
East Shopping Malls: The Battle of the Brands |
|
Overcoming Consumerism
(anti-consumerism website) |
|
Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella (book review of this 2003 novel and links to reader
reviews) |
|
Not Buying
It: My Year Without Shopping, by Judith Levine (book review by
Marjorie Kehe in CSM, 3/2006) |
|
Buy,
Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds,
by Susan G. Thomas |
|
Behind
Consumption and Consumerism --Global Issues (global health &
environmental perspectives) |
| Creating
the Consumer, by Anup Shah (from global issues website) |
| All
Consuming Passion: Waking Up from the American Dream |
| Affluenza
(from online encyclopedia, refers to term used by those critical of
consumerism) |
| Affluenza
(teacher's guide PBS series on ills of consumerism) |
| Salvation
Through Consumption? |
| The
Sacred Santa: Religious
Dimensions of Consumer Culture by Dell deChant |
|
The CardHub
on Comparing Credit Cards (the ultimate website about credit cards on
multiple levels: consumer, researcher, etc.) |
| quotes
related to shopping |
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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #26B: The More Is
Better Mentality
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| Super
Size Me (from online encyclopedia about the documentary film and
related cultural trend) |
| Spoiled
Child (from online encyclopedia) |
| Living
Ever Larger--How Wretched Excess Became a Way of Life in Southern
California, by Patrick Kiger |
| Too
Much (website providing "commentary on excess and
inequality") |
| "The Neiman Marcus Catalogue: Hold the Myrrh"
(article about Xmas shopping excesses from The Economist Oct 18 2014) |
| "How
Mega Millions Became a $586 Million Phenomenon" (Dec 16 2013 USA
Today story on a lottery with super jackpot payoff) |
| "Supercharged
2015 Chevy Corvette..." (Jan 15 2014 article/video about the 625
Hp sports car) |
| "Land of the Corporate Giants"
(article from The Economist Nov 3 2012) |
| "Technology
Advances, Humans Supersize" by P. Cohen (health & human
evolution, 2011 NY Times article) |
| "Tiger
Woods Ex-Wife Bulldozes $12 million Home" by Shane Bacon (Jan 5
2011 Yahoo Sports article) |
| "Forget
Frugality, Focus on Earning More" by Ramit Sethi (Apr 28 2011 NY
Times article) |
| "Our
Super-Sized Kids--How America's Children Packed on the Pounds, by Jeffrey
Kluger (article in Time June 23 2008) |
| Book
Review of Better Not Bigger, book by Eben Fodor |
| I
Love My SUV, by Ray Keating |
| I
Love My SUV Despite Its MPG, by Colin Hurlock, editor at MSNBC |
| Chasing
the SUV Vote |
| "The Politics of Very Big Trucks"
(October 6 2012 article in The Economist) |
| The
Big Screen (a Stanford student's prank / commentary) |
| People of
Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character, by David M. Potter
(read at Google Books) |
| A
Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe (American consumer
excess is major theme in this 1998 novel; from online encyclopedia) |
|
American Mania -- When More is Not
Enough (book by director of UCLA Neuropsychiatric Inst.) |
|
Feature
Fatigue -- When Product Capabilities Become Too Much of a Good Thing (J.
of Marketing Research article) |
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Quirky
Foes and Owners of Invading Monster Mansions (NY Times book review of Rattled
and Lapham Rising) |
|
quotes
about excess and related topics |
