Consumer culture / Heidi Watkins, book editor. - Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2011. - 104 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm. - Issues that concern you . - Issues that concern you. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-98) and index.

Consumer culture harms society / Benjamin Barber, interviewed by Kimberly Palmer -- Consumer culture benefits society / Howard Bloom -- Consumer culture harms children and teens / Madeline Levine -- Teen spending habits have changed / Natalie Zmuda -- Rejecting consumerism is beneficial / Robert Llewellyn -- Rejecting consumerism is not realistic / Tim Cavanaugh -- High socio-economic status causes depression / Peter Dodson -- Advertising is to blame for overconsumption / Jean Kilbourne -- Human instinct is to blame for overconsumption / John Naish -- American consumers are becoming more careful spenders / Noreen O?Leary -- What you should know about consumer culture -- What you should do about consumer culture.

ISBN: 9780737752069 (hardcover) 0737752068 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2010038105

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
Consumers--United States.
Materialism--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: HC110.C6 / C5622 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 306.30973