1900
- Good Housekeeping Institute was established as consumer
product evaluation laboratory of Good Housekeeping Magazine;
dedicated to making lives better for consumers and their
families; 1909 - Good Housekeeping Seal (of
approval) created as highly recognized statement of magazine's
renowned Consumers' Policy (states that if a product bearing the
Seal proves to be defective within two years of purchase, Good
Housekeeping will replace the product or refund the purchase
price).
May 3, 1921
- West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
April 2008 -
Relationship between borrowing and spending: personal
consumption as share of the economy from 1953 through end of
2007; borrowing against home equity;
1999-2008 - consumption fueled by
borrowing against house.
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October 2008 -
Consumer Spending 1970-2008
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November 12, 2008 -
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November
29, 2008 -
- Americans claim to be
less interested in spending than at any time in last 4
decades (credit crisis, recession); will low prices
still draw consumers? (Black Friday - from red ink of
losses for year into black ink of profitability for
retailers); 3Q 2008 - Commerce
Department reported personal consumption
spending, adjusted for inflation, fell at 2.7% annual
rate, (biggest decline since 2Q 1980 which was helped by
tax rebates from stimulus package); economy contracted
0.5%; Conference Board reported 1.9% of
respondents (to its 40-year monthly survey of
major-items purchase plans for next 6-months) planned to
buy a house (lowest since 1982,
double-digit interest rates - see below), 3.7% planned
to buy a car (lowest in 40 years vs.
previous low of 4.5%), 1.3% planned to buy a new car (lowest
in 40 years), 8.8% think jobs are easy to find
(lowest in 15 years).
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(Kimberly-Clark), Thomas Heinrich and Bob
Batchelor (2004).
Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer
Revolution in American Business. (Columbus, OH: Ohio
State University Press, 272 p.). Robert F. Friedman Professor of
American History (Baruch College); Business Writer and
Historian. Kimberly-Clark Corporation--History; Sanitary supply
industry--United States--History; Consumer behavior--United
States--Case studies.
Eds. Nathan Abrams and Julie Hughes (2000).
Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in
Fifties America. (Birmingham, UK: University of
Birmingham Press, 200 p.). Popular culture--United
States--History--20th century; Consumers--United States--Social
life and customs--20th century; Cold War--Social aspects--United
States; Nineteen fifties; United States--Civilization--1945-.
Dan S. Acuff with Robert H. Reiher (1997).
What Kids Buy and Why: The Psychology of Marketing to Kids.
(New York, NY: Free Press, 206 p.). Child consumers; New
products; Child development; Cognition in children.
ed. Maggie Andrews and Mary M. Talbot (2000).
All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century
Consumer Culture. (London, UK: Cassell, 278 p.). Women
consumers; Culture -- Economic aspects; Consumption (Economics).
Shelley Baranowski (2004).
Strength Through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third
Reich. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 254
p.). Nationalsozialistische Gemeinschaft "Kraft durch Freude"--History;
Consumption (Economics)--Germany--History--20th century;
Tourism--Government policy--Germany--History--20th century;
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Benjamin R. Barber (2007).
Con$umed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and
Swallow Citizens Whole. (New York, NY: Norton, 320 p.).
Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and
Distinguished University Professor (University of Maryland).
Consumption (Economics)--United States; Consumer
behavior--United States; Child consumers--United States;
Capitalism--United States; Materialism--United States--Social
aspects; Mass society; United States--Social conditions--1980-. Consumerism fosters,
requires "enduring childishness"; deprives society of
responsible citizens, displaces public goods with private
commodities; consumer capitalism specializes in manufacture of
needs (not goods).
Isadore Barmash (1974).
The World Is Full of It; How We Are Oversold, Overinfluenced,
and Overwhelmed by the Communications Manipulators. (New
York, NY: Delacorte Press, 269 p.). Mass media--Social
aspects--United States; Advertising--United States; United
States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
Zygmunt Bauman (2008).
Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 288 p.). Emeritus
Professor of Sociology (University of Leeds). Consumption
(Economics) --Moral and ethical aspects; Globalization --Moral
and ethical aspects. Reframe way we think about insoluble problems of modern world;
inherited beliefs that aid thinking about world have become an
obstacle; give up belief in hierarchical arrangement of states,
powers.
Gary S. Becker (1996).
Accounting for Tastes. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 268 p.). Nobel Prize Winning Economist.
Consumers' preferences; Consumer behavior; Consumption
(Economics)--Social aspects; Human capital.
Carolyn Shaw Bell (1967).
Consumer Choice in the American Economy. (New York, NY:
Random House, 429 p.). Professor of Economics (Wellesley
College). Consumers--United States; Consumption (Economics).
Daniel Bell; with a new afterword by the
author (1996).
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. (New York,
NY: Basic Books, 363 p. [20th anniversary ed.]). Technology and
civilization; Capitalism; United States--Civilization--1945-;
United States--Social conditions--1945-.
John Benson (1994).
The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880-1980. (New
York, NY: Longman, 245 p.). Great Britain--Social
conditions--19th century; Great Britain--Social conditions--20th
century; Great Britain--Economic conditions--19th century; Great
Britain--Economic conditions--20th century.
Arthur Asa Berger (2004).
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on
American Character and Society. (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield Pub., 197 p. [2nd ed.]). Advertising--United States;
Popular culture--United States; Consumer education--United
States.
Arthur Asa Berger (2005).
Shop 'til You Drop: Consumer Behavior and American Culture.
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 136 p.). Consumer
behavior--United States; Consumer behavior--Social
aspects--United States; Consumers' preferences--Psychological
aspects--United States.
David Blanke (2000).
Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the
Rural Midwest. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 282
p.). Assistant Professor of History (Briar Cliff College, Sioux
City, Iowa). Consumption (Economics)--Middle West--History;
Consumer behavior--Middle West--History.
Regina Lee Blaszczyk (2009).
American Consumer Society, 1865-2005: From Hearth to HDTV.
(Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc, 382 p.). Visiting Scholar
in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science
(University of Pennsylvania). Consumption (Economics) --United
States --History.; Consumers --United States --History.
Re-interpretation of American culture through lens of
consumerism; emergence of consumerism in Victorian era,
evolution over next 140 years; emergence of mass market followed by its fragmentation; niche marketing focused on
successive waves of new consumers;
how consumerism reflected American identity changed over time -
initially driven to
imitate those who had achieved success, began to use their purchases to express themselves; American reverence for things replaced by
passion for experiences.
Sara Bongiorni (2007).
A Year Without 'Made in China': One Family’s True Life Adventure
in the Global Economy. (Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, 235 p.).
Business Journalist in Baton Rouge, LA. Boycotts--United
States--Case studies; Consumers--United States--Attitudes;
Exports--China; Globalization--Economic aspects--United States.
January 1, 2005 - author's
family began yearlong boycott of Chinese products; formerly
simple acts (finding new shoes, buying birthday toy, fixing
drawer) became ordeals without Asian giant (about 15
percent of $1.7 trillion in goods imported by United States in
2006 came from China).
David Bosshart (2006).
Cheap: The Real Cost of the Global Trend for Bargains, Discounts
& Customer Choice. (London, UK: Kogan Page, 197 p.). CEO
of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic and Social
Studies. Consumers’ preferences; Discount; Cost; Marketing;
Globalization. Bleak
picture of obsession with cheap goods; comes at a cost to
society.
Rachel Botsman & Roo Rogers (2010).
What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption.
(New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 304 p.). Former Director at the
William J. Clinton Foundation. Consumption (Economics); Resource
allocation; Cooperation. Three growing models of Collaborative
Consumption: 1) Product Service Systems - what product/service
does-without owning it (Zipcar, Ziploc - disrupting traditional
industries based on models of individual ownership); 2) Communal
Economies - crowd of consumers (online networks - Etsy, online
market for handcrafts, Zopa - social lending marketplace); 3)
Redistribution Markets - consumer-to-consumer marketplaces
(worldwide networks - Freecycle, Ebay; emerging forms of modern
day bartering and “swap trading” - Zwaggle, Swaptree, Zunafish);
encourages reuse/resale of old items rather than throwing them
out, reduces waste, carbon emissions that go along with new
production; new economy of more sustainable consumerism.
Jacqueline Botterill (2010).
Consumer Culture and Personal Finance: Money Goes to Market.
(New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 253 p.). Assistant Professor
of Communication, Popular Culture and Film (Brock University,
Canada). Consumption (Economics); Consumer behavior; Finance,
Personal.
Rachel Bowlby (2001).
Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping. (New
York, NY: Columbia University Press, 281 p.). Women
consumers--History; Consumption (Economics)--History;
Shopping--History; Supermarkets--History; Department
stores--History.
David Brancaccio ( 1999).
Squandering Aimlessly: My Adventures in the American Marketplace.
(New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 283 p.). Host of Public Radio's
"Marketplace". Consumption (Economics)--United States; Consumer
behavior--United States; Finance, Personal--United States.
T. H. Breen (2004).
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped
American Independence. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 400 p.). Professor of American History (Northwestern
University). Consumption (Economics)--United
States--History--18th century; United
States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes; United
States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects.
Personal freedoms (self-will) and
capitalism (consumerist imperative).
Timothy Brook (1998).
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China.
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 320 p.).
Professor of History (University of Toronto). China -- History
-- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644; China -- Commerce -- History.
Changing landscape of life over
three centuries of Ming (1368-1644); China transformed from
closely administered agrarian realm into place of commercial
profits, intense competition for status.
Eds. Elspeth H. Brown, Catherine Gudis, and
Marina Moskowitz (2006).
Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business
Culture, 1877-1960. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan,
368 p.). Assistant Professor of History and American Studies
(Miami University); Department of History and is Director of the
Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies (University of Glasgow);
Assistant Professor (University of Oklahoma). Corporate
culture--United States--History; Consumption (Economics)--Social
aspects; Advertising--United States--History; Public
relations--United States--History. Business history and study of
cultural forms (material to visual culture to literature.
W. Keith Bryant, Cathleen D. Zick (2005).
The Economic Organization of the Household. (New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 352 p [2nd ed.]). Professor
Emeritus, Department of Policy Analysis and Management (Cornell
University); Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and
Consumer Studies (University of Utah). Consumption
(Economics)--United States; Income--United States;
Households--United States; Family--Economic aspects--United
States; Consumption (Economics); Income; Households;
Family--Economic aspects. Authors review, apply, extend the theory of the consumer.
Ed. Richard Butsch (1990).
For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into
Consumption. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press,
239 p.). Professor of Sociology (Rider College). Leisure
industry--United States--History; Leisure--Economic
aspects--United States; Popular culture--Economic
aspects--United States.
Eds. Emma Casey and Lydia Martens (2007).
Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the
Commercialisation of Everyday Life. (Burlington, VT:
Ashgate, 224). Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Kingston
University, London); Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Keele
University). Women--Social life and customs--20th century;
Women--Social conditions--20th century; Women consumers;
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects; Home economics. Insight
into women's domestic consumption. Broad range of experiences that
domestic consumption offers women, complex meanings, motivations
underpinning women's consumption practices.
St�phane Castelluccio (2009).
Le Commerce du Luxe � Paris aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Si�cles:
Echanges Nationaux et Internationaux. (Bern : Peter
Lang, 421 p.). Luxuries -- France -- Paris -- 17th century;
Luxuries -- France -- Paris -- 18th century. Paris (France) --
Commerce -- History -- 17th century; Paris (France) -- Commerce
-- History -- 18th century.
Radha Chadha & Paul Husband (2006).
The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia’s Love Affair with
Luxury. (Boston, MA: Nicholas Brealey International, 314
p.). Founder, Chadha Strategy Consulting (Hong Kong); Founder,
Husband Retail Consulting (Hong Kong). Brand name
products--Social aspects--Asia; Luxuries--Social aspects; Brand
name products--Asia--Marketing; Social status--Asia; Social
classes--Asia. How, why of
Asia's "luxeplosion": 1) Hong Kong - more Gucci, Herm�s stores
than New York, Paris; 2) China - biggest luxury market by 2014;
3) India - three-month waiting lists for hot items; 4) Asian
consumers account for as much as half of the $80 billion global
luxe industry.
Eds. Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel,
Matthew Hilton (2006).
The Expert Consumer: Associations and Professionals in Consumer
Society. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 209 p.).
Consumers--Europe--History; Consumers--United States--History;
Consumer protection--Europe--History; Consumer
protection--United States--History; Consumption
(Economics)--Europe--History; Consumption (Economics)--United
States--History.
Elizabeth Chin (2001).
Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture.
(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 258 p.).
Consumption (Economics)--Connecticut--New Haven; Purchasing
power--Connecticut--New Haven; African American
children--Connecticut--New Haven; African American
consumers--Connecticut--New Haven.
Sherman Cochran (2006).
Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast
Asia. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 288 p.).
Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History (Cornell University).
Consumer behavior--China--History; Consumer behavior--Southeast
Asia--History; Popular culture--China--History; Popular
culture--Southeast Asia--History; Drugs--Marketing.
Marketing of medicine, how
Chinese constructed consumer culture in China and Southeast
Asia, extended it to local, national, transnational levels.
Deborah Cohen (2006).
Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. (New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 296 p.). Associate Professor
of History (Brown University). Decorative arts--Great
Britain--History--19th century; Decorative arts--Great
Britain--History--20th century; Social values--Great Britain;
Materialism--Great Britain; Retail trade--Great Britain; Great
Britain--Social life and customs--19th century; Great
Britain--Social life and customs--1918-1945; Great
Britain--Commerce--Social aspects. Roots of today’s consumer
society, forces that shape consumer desires; focus on class,
choice, shopping, possessions.
Leah Hager Cohen (1997).
Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of
Ordinary Things. (New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency, 299
p.). Material culture; Commercial products--Social aspects;
Commercial products--History; Fetishism.
Lizabeth Cohen (2003).
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in
Postwar America. (New York, NY: Knopf, 567 p.). Howard
Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies (Harvard
University). Consumption (Economics)--United States; Consumer
behavior--United States; United States--Social
conditions--1980-.
Eds. Sande Cohen and R.L. Rutsky (2005).
Consumption in an Age of Information. (New York, NY:
Berg, 224 p.). Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects;
Information society--Economic aspects; Information
technology--Economic aspects; Consumer behavior.
Analysis
of new relationship
between information and consumption.
Philip J. Cook and Robert H. Frank (1995).
The Winner-Take-All Society: How More and More Americans Compete
for Ever Fewer and Bigger Prizes, Encouraging Economic Waste,
Income Inequality, and an Impoverished Cultural Life.
(New York, NY: Free Press, 272 p.). Professor (Duke University).
Competition; Fame--Economic aspects; Success; Success in
business; Consumer behavior; Income distribution.
Gary Cross (1993). Time and Money: The
Making of Consumer Culture. (New York, NY: Routledge, 294
p.). Consumption (Economics)--History--Cross-cultural studies;
Leisure--History--Cross-cultural studies; Hours of
labor--History--Cross-cultural studies.
--- (2000).
An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern
America. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 320
p.). Consumers--United States.
Stephen Dale (2005).
Candy from Strangers: Kids and Consumer Culture.
(Vancouver, BC: New Star Books, 266 p.). Child consumers;
Advertising--Social aspects; Advertising and children;
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects. Are children victims of marketing world? Or could they be sophisticated participants in
consumer culture?
Peter Dauvergne (2008).
The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global
Environment. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 328 p.).
Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in
Global Environmental Politics (University of British Columbia).
Consumption (Economics) --Environmental aspects;
Environmentalism. Many of earth's ecosystems, billions of its
people are at risk from consequences of rising consumption; environmental consequences of five
commodities: automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, harp
seals; why efforts to manage global environment are failing even as
environmentalism is strengthening; guiding principle of
"balanced consumption" for both consumers, corporations;
reforms in global political economy to reduce inequalities of
consumption, correct imbalance between growing economies,
environmental sustainability.
John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor in
association with Redefining Progress (2001).
Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic. (San Francisco,
CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 268 p.). Producer of the PBS
Documentaries [Affluenza (1996) and Escape from Affluenza
(1998)]; Former EPA Staffer and Expert on Sustainable
Lifestyles; Professor Emeritus in Economics (Duke). Quality of
life--United States; Wealth--United States; Consumption
(Economics)--United States; United States--Social
conditions--1980-; United States--Economic conditions--1981-;
United States--Civilization--1970.
Edited by Victoria de Grazia, with Ellen
Furlough; introductions by Victoria de Grazia (1996).
The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical
Perspective. (Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 433 p.). Professor of History and Director of the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender (Columbia
University); Associate Professor of History (Kenyon College).
Consumer behavior--Sex differences--History; Consumption
(Economics)--Social aspects--History.
Victoria de Grazia (2005).
Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century
Europe. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 608
p.). Professor of History (Columbia University). Consumer
behavior--Europe--History--20th century;
Consumers--Europe--Attitudes--History--20th century; Consumption
(Economics)--Europe--History--20th century; Social
values--Europe--History--20th century; Social values--United
States--History--20th century; United States--Civilization--20th
century.
Ed. Dennis Denisoff (2008).
The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture.
(Burlington, VT . Ashgate Pub., 239 p.). Research Chair in
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Ryerson University).
Consumption (Economics) --Social aspects --Great Britain;
Consumer behavior --Great Britain --History --19th century;
Child consumers --Great Britain --History --19th century; Child
welfare --Great Britain --History --19th century; Great Britain
--Social conditions -- 19th century. Rising investment made by children, adults in commodities as
sources of identity, human worth; roles assigned to children in
context of 19th-century consumer culture (consumers, labor and
raw material for industry, agents in formation of
adult-articulated cultural contexts).
Jan De Vries (2008).
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household
Economy, 1650 to the present. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 327 p.). Professor of History and Economics
(University of California at Berkeley). Consumption (Economics)
--History; Consumers --History. Context in which economic
acceleration associated with Industrial Revolution took shape;
how activation, evolution of consumer demand shaped course of
economic development, situated consumer behavior in context of
household economy; changing consumption goals of households from
17th century to present; how household decisions have mediated
between macro-level economic growth, actual human betterment.
Kathleen G. Donohue (2003).
Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the
Consumer. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 326 p.). Assistant Professor of History (University of
North Carolina, Charlotte). Liberalism--United States--History;
Consumption (Economics)--United States--History; United
States--Intellectual life.
Dinesh D'Souza (2000).
The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of
Techno-Affluence. (New York, NY: Free Press, 284 p.).
Wealth--Moral and ethical aspects--United States; Success--Moral
and ethical aspects--United States; Values--United States.
Robert G. Dunn (2008).
Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer
Society. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 235
p.). Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology (California
State University, East Bay). Consumption (Economics) --Social
aspects; Identity (Psychology). How an individual’s buying habits
are shaped by dynamics of consumer marketplace; how consumption,
identity inform each other; how we spend, its relationship with
status and lifestyle.
Ronald Edsforth (1987).
Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass
Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan. (New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 294 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--Michigan--Flint; Automobile industry
workers--Michigan--Flint; Social conflict--Michigan--Flint;
Consumption (Economics); Mass society; Flint (Mich.)--Economic
conditions; Flint (Mich.)--Social conditions.
John Ehrenfeld (2008).
Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming
Our Consumer Culture. (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 246 p.). Executive Director of the International Society
for Industrial Ecology, Senior Research Scholar at the Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Sustainable
development; Consumption (Economics). Sustainability is
possibility that humans and other life will flourish on Earth
forever; problematic cultural attributes, practical steps toward
developing sustainability as a mindset; focus on "being"
mode of human existence rather than on unsustainable "having"
mode.
Lee
Eisenberg (2009).
Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No
Matter What. (New
York, NY, Free Press, 334 p.). Former Editor in Chief of
Esquire. Consumer behavior -- United States; Consumers -- United
States. Retail consumption - from
advertising to behavioral marketing, from malls to Internet
communities; dynamics of selling and buying; "The Sell Side"
- machinery aimed at inducing us to purchase; universe of
marketing, retailing, advertising, consumer and scientific
research; "The Buy Side" - What are we really looking for when
we buy? Why are we alternately excited, guilt-ridden, satisfied,
disappointed, and recklessly impulsive? What are biases,
need for status, impulses to self-express, that lead us
individually to buy what we buy? classic buyer or romantic
buyer? How do men, women differ in their attitudes towards
shopping; does old cliche -- "Women shop, men buy" -- apply any
longer?; What Makes a Good Buy.
Ed. Pasi Falk and Colin Campbell (1997).
The Shopping Experience. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, 212 p.). Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects;
Shopping--Social aspects.
James J. Farrell (2003).
One Nation Under Goods: Malls and the Seductions of American
Shopping. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 329 p.).
Shopping malls--United States--History; Shopping centers--United
States--History; Popular culture--United States--History.
Margot C. Finn (2003).
The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture,
1740-1914. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press,
362 p.). Warwick Research Fellow and Reader in History
(University of Warwick). English prose literature--History and
criticism; Economics and literature--Great Britain--History;
Consumption (Economics)--Great Britain--History; Finance,
Personal--Great Britain--History; Consumption (Economics) in
literature; Credit--Great Britain--History; Debt--Great
Britain--History; Economics in literature; Debt in literature;
Great Britain--Economic conditions. History of English consumer
culture from three interlocking perspectives: 1) representations
of debt in novels, diaries, autobiographical memoirs; 2)
transformation of imprisonment for debt; 3) use of small claims
courts to mediate disputes between debtors, creditors.
Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears
(1983). The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in
American History, 1880-1980. (New York, NY: Pantheon Books,
236 p.). Consumption (Economics)--United States--History; Elite
(Social sciences)--United States--History; Social
values--History.
Dana Frank (1999).
Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism.
(Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 316 p.). Associate Professor of
American Studies (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz).
Consumers--United States; Consumers' preferences--United States;
Buy national policy--United States.
Robert H. Frank (1985).
Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 306 p.). Economics;
Welfare economics; Wages; Social status.
--- (1999).
Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess.
(New York, NY: Free Press, 326 p.). Professor of Economics
(Cornell). Wealth--United States; Luxury; Consumption
(Economics)--United States; Competition--United States.
--- (2010).
Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 336 p.). Henrietta
Johnson Louis Professor of Management, Professor of Economics
(Cornell University).Wealth --United States; Luxury; Consumption
(Economics) --United States. How gross consumption spending
patterns at beginning of 21st century have not produced happiness or health; ways to curb culture of excess, restore
true value to life.
Thomas C. Frank (1997).
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the
Rise of Hip Consumerism. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 287 p.). Marketing--United States--History--20th
century; Advertising--United States--History--20th century;
Advertising and youth--United States--History--20th century;
Nineteen sixties; Consumer behavior--United
States--History--20th century; Subculture--United States; United
States--Social conditions--1960-1980; United States--Social
conditions--1980-.
W. Hamish Fraser (1981).
The Coming of the Mass Market, 1850-1914. (Hamden, CT:
Archon Books, 268 p.). Consumption (Economics)--Great
Britain--History; Retail trade--Great Britain--History;
Industries--Great Britain--History--19th century;
Industries--Great Britain--History--20th century.
David Friedman (1996).
Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life. (New York,
NY: HarperBusiness, 340 p.). Economics; Consumer behavior.
Regina Gagnier (2000).
The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in
Market Society. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press, 255 p.). Culture -- Economic aspects; Aesthetics --
Economic aspects; Economic history -- 19th century; English
literature -- 19th century -- Economic aspects.
John Kenneth Galbraith; Updated and with a New
Introduction by the Author (1998).
The Affluent Society. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 276
p. [40th anniversary ed.]). Economics--United States; United
States--Economic conditions--1945-; United States--Economic
policy.
Ellen Gruber Garvey (1996).
The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer
Culture, 1880s to 1910s. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 230 p.). Assistant Professor of English
(Jersey City State College). American fiction --19th century
--History and criticism; Short stories --Publishing --United
States --History --19th century; Periodicals --Publishing
--Economic aspects --United States; Popular literature --United
States --History and criticism; American fiction --20th century
--History and criticism; Short stories, American --History and
criticism; Literature and society --United States --History;
Advertising, Magazine --United States --History; Books and
reading --United States --History; Women consumers --United
States --Attitudes. New prevalence of advertising for
mass-produced, nationally distributed products. Readers'
interactions with advertising during period when consumption,
advertising became established as pleasure; readers'
participation in advertising (vs. top-down dictation by
advertisers) made advertising central part of American culture.
Karl Gerth (2003).
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 445 p.).
Assistant Professor of History (University of South Carolina).
Consumption (Economics)--China--History--20th century;
Nationalism--China--20th century; Manufacturing
industries--China--20th century; Boycotts--China--History--20th
century.
Natasha Glaisyer (2006).
The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720.
(Woodbridge, UK: The Royal Historical Society and the Boydell
Press, 220 p.). Department of History (University of York).
England--Commerce--History--17th century;
England--Commerce--History--18th century;
England--Civilization--17th century; England--
Civilization--18th century. Culture of early modern market
(late 17th, early 18th-century England, between Restoration and
South Sea Bubble. How commerce was legitimated, promoted,
fashioned, defined, understood; packaging, portrayal of
commerce, commercial knowledge.
Lawrence B. Glickman (1997).
A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer
Society. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 220 p.).
Wages--United States--History; Cost and standard of
living--United States--History; Working class--United
States--History; Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United
States--History.
Edited with an introduction and bibliographic
essay by Lawrence B. Glickman (1999).
Consumer Society in American History: A Reader / edited with an
introduction and bibliographic essay. (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 420 p.). Consumption
(Economics)--United States--History; Consumers--United States;
Consumers--United States--History; Consumption
(Economics)--United States.
Richard A. Goldthwaite (1993).
Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 266 p.).
Wealth--Italy--History; Art patronage--Italy--History; Art,
Renaissance--Italy; Consumption (Economics)--Italy--History.
Daniel Goleman (2009).
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What
We Buy Can Change Everything. (New York, NY: Penguin
Books, 288 p.). Environmentalism --Economic aspects; Consumer
behavior --Environmental aspects; Environmental responsibility
--Economic aspects; Industries --Environmental aspects.
Ecological facts about products at point of purchase; hidden
environmental consequences of what we make and buy; how that
knowledge can drive essential changes to save planet ourselves;
why shoppers
are in dark over hidden impacts of goods and services made,
consumed.
Elemer Hankiss (2006).
The Toothpaste of Immortality: Self-Construction in the Consumer
Age. (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 448
p.). Professor of Sociology at the College of Europe (Bruges,
Belgium). Self; Civilization, Modern.
Profound ways in
which everyday acts and artifacts of consumer civilization shape
our sense of self.
Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter (2005).
The Rebel Sell: How the Counter Culture Became Consumer Culture.
(New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 368 p.). Associate Professor of
Philosophy (University of Toronto); Research Fellow at the
Centre de Recherche en �thique (l'Universit� de Montr�al).
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects; Marketing--Social
aspects; Advertising--Social aspects; Counterculture.
Yuwa Hedrick-Wong (2006).
Holding Up Half of the Sky: The New Women Consumers of Asia.
(Singapore: Wiley, 165 p.). Economic Advisor to MasterCard
International, Visiting Professor at the School of Management
(Fudan University Shanghai, China). Women consumers -- Asia;
Culture -- Economic aspects -- Asia; Consumption (Economics) --
Asia. Dynamics of rising
power of women consumers in 11 Asian countries; estimated $516
billion of discretionary spending power by 2014.
Kevin Hetherington (2007).
Capitalism’s Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity. (New
York, NY: Routledge, 232 p.). Consumption (Economics)--United
States--History; Consumption (Economics)--Europe--History;
Consumer behavior--United States; Consumer behavior--Europe;
Senses and sensation. How
people experienced commodities in era of industrial expansion;
emergence of culture of mass consumption dominated by visual
experience was much slower process, not truly ascendant until
after the First World War.
Matthew Hilton (2003).
Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a
Historical Movement. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 382 p.). Consumption (Economics) Great Britain History
20th century; Consumption (Economics) Social aspects Great
Britain History 20th century; Consumption (Economics) Political
aspects Great Britain History 20th century; Consumers Great
Britain History 20th century; Consumer protection Great Britain
History 20th century; Great Britain Economic conditions 20th
century.
Thomas Hine (2002).
I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers. (New York, NY:
HarperCollins, p.). Consumers--History; Consumption
(Economics)--History; Shopping--History; Retail trade--History.
Daniel Horowitz (1985).
The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society
in America, 1875-1940. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 254 p.). Consumption (Economics) -- United
States -- History; Consumers -- United States -- History;
Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- Moral and ethical
aspects -- History; Intellectuals -- United States -- Attitudes
-- History; Social reformers -- United States -- Attitudes --
History. History of consumer attitudes.
--- (2004).
The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer
Culture, 1939-1979. (Amherst, MA: University of
Massachusetts Press, 339 p.). Consumption (Economics) United
States Psychological aspects; Consumption (Economics) Moral and
ethical aspects United States; Intellectuals United States
Attitudes; Acquisitiveness Moral and ethical aspects; Affluent
consumers United States Psychology; Consumption (Economics)
United States Public opinion; Wealth United States Public
opinion; Public opinion United States.
Eds. Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun (1998).
His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology.
(Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 240 p.).
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States--History;
Consumer behavior--United States--History; Women
consumers--United States--History; Technology--Social
aspects--United States--History.
Eds. Richard A. Horsley and James Tracy
(2001).
Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Celluloid, Christ, and Culture.
(Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press Intl., 234 p.).
Christmas--United States; Christmas--Economic aspects--United
States; Consumption (Economics)--United States; Christmas in
motion pictures; United States--Social life and customs.
Andrew Hurley (2001).
Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American
Dream in the Postwar Consumer Culture. (New York, NY:
Basic Books, 409 p.). Associate Professor of History (University
of Missouri, St. Louis). Consumption (Economics)--United
States--History--20th century; Diners--United
States--History--20th century; Bowling alleys--United
States--History--20th century; Trailers--United
States--History--20th century; Middle class--United
States--History--20th century; United States--Economic
conditions--1945-.
Ruth E. Iskin (2007).
Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist
Painting. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 283
p.). Teaches Art History and Visual Culture (Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev in Israel). Women in art; Consumption
(Economics) in art; Fashion in art; Advertising in art;
Impressionism (Art) --France --Paris; Painting, French --France
--Paris --19th century. Impressionist painting in context of
19th-century consumer culture; representation of feminine
fashions, consumers, sales-women in Parisian boutiques;
representation of women in Impressionist
painting; how paintings represent
women as objects of display, how they address women as
spectators in active roles - consumers, producers, sellers.
Lisa Jacobson (2004).
Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the
Early Twentieth Century. (New York, NY: Columbia
University Press, 299 p.). Assistant professor in the History
Department (University of California, Santa Barbara). Child
consumers--United States--History--20th century; Market
segmentation--United States--History--20th century; Target
marketing--United States--History--20th century; Advertising and
children--United States--History--20th century.
Mark Jayne (2005).
Cities and Consumption. (New York, NY: Routledge, 248
p.). University of Leeds. Urbanization; Cities and towns;
Consumption (Economics). Contents: Introducing cities and
consumption -- Consumption and the modern city -- Consumption
and the postmodern city -- Consumption and everyday life --
Cities, consumption, and identity -- Consuming the city --
Consumption and urban regeneration -- Conclusion.
Relationship between urban
development and consumption.
Eds. Ian Rees Jones, Paul Higgs, and David J.
Ekerdt (2008).
Consumption and Generational Change the Rise of Consumer
Lifestyles. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 204 p.).
Professor of Sociology (Bangor University); Reader in Medical
Sociology (University College London); Professor of Sociology
and Director of the Gerontology Center (University of Kansas).
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Older consumers;
Consumer behavior; Population aging. How people consume, to what
ends as part of processes of production, distribution, exchange;
distance is no obstacle to distribution, ownership; rise of
consumer culture,
individualism, mass consumption, leisure, lifestyles
accompanied by democratization of social forms, corrosion of
community and social cohesion for many; social change with
reference to generation effects, conflict.
Peter d'A. Jones (1965).
The Consumer Society: A History of American Capitalism.
(Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 407 p.). United States--Economic
conditions.
Jenna Weissman Joselit (2001).
A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America.
(New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 257 p.). Fashion--Social
aspects--United States--19th century; Fashion--Social
aspects--United States--20th century; Clothing and dress--United
States.
Tim Kasser (2002).
The High Price of Materialism. (Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 149 p.). Acquisitiveness; Avarice;
Materialism--Psychological aspects; Happiness; Conduct of life.
Eds. Tim Kasser and Allen D. Kanner (2004).
Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in
a Materialistic World. (Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association, 297 p.). Consumption
(Economics)--United States--Psychological aspects;
Materialism--Psychological aspects; Acquisitiveness; Identity
(Psychology); Consumers--Psychology.
Naomi Klein (2000).
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. (New York, N:
Picador, 490 p.). Columnist (Toronto Star). International
business enterprises--Political aspects; International business
enterprises--Public opinion; Brand name products--Political
aspects; Brand name products--Public opinion.
Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace (1997).
Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the
Eighteenth Century. (New York, NY: Columbia University
Press, 185 p.). Assistant Professor of English (Boston College).
Women consumers--Great Britain--History--18th century; Women
consumers--Great Britain--History--19th century; Consumer
behavior--Great Britain--History--18th century; Consumer
behavior--Great Britain--History--19th century.
William Severini Kowinski (1985).
The Malling of America: An Inside Look at the Great Consumer
Paradise. (New York, NY: Morrow, 415 p.). Shopping
malls--United States.
Mark Landsman (2005).
Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East
Germany. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 296
p.). Consumption (Economics)--Germany (East); Socialism--Germany
(East); Germany (East)--Economic conditions; Germany
(East)--Politics and government.
Rob Latham (2002).
Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of
Consumption. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,
321 p.). Consumer behavior--United States; Young adult
consumers--United States--Attitudes.
Ed. Maud Lavin; with contributions by Melanie
Archer, Alyson Priestap-Beaton, Amy Tavormina Fidler, Benjamin
Finch, and Jason Warriner (2004).
The Business of Holidays. (New York, NY: Monacelli
Press, 286 p.). Associate Professor, Visual and Critical
Studies; Art History, Theory, and Criticism (Art In stitute of
Chicago). Holidays--Economic aspects--United States; Consumption
(Economics)--United States; Popular culture--United States;
United States--Social life and customs.
William Leach (1993).
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American
Culture. (New York, NY: Pantheon, 510 p.). Department
stores--United States--History; Sales promotion--United
States--History; Department stores--Social aspects--United
States--History; Consumer behavior--United States--History;
United States--Commercial policy--History.
Stanley Lebergott (1993).
Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 188 p.). Consumption
(Economics)--United States--History--20th century; United
States--Economic conditions--1918-1945; United States--Economic
conditions--1945-.
Judith Levine (2006).
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping. (New York, NY:
Free Press, 288 p.). Consumer education; Shopping.
Need and desire, scarcity and
security, consumerism and citizenship; defining necessity - line
between need and want.
Robert Levine (2003).
The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold.
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 278 p.). Professor, Former Chairperson of
the Psychology Department (California State University, Fresno).
Persuasion (Psychology).
Eugene Linden (1979).
Affluence and Discontent: The Anatomy of Consumer Societies.
(New York, NY: Viking Press, 178 p.). Consumers; Civilization,
Modern--20th century.
Celia Lury (1996).
Consumer Culture. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 273 p.). Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects;
Consumer behavior; Culture -- Economic aspects.
Ann Smart Martin (2008).
Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry
Virginia. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 288 p.). Chipstone Professor of Art History (University
of Wisconsin--Madison). Hook, John, 1745-1808; Consumption
(Economics)--Virginia--History--18th century; Consumer
behavior--United States--History--18th century;
Merchants--Virginia--Biography; Material
culture--Virginia--History--18th century; Country
life--Virginia--History--18th century; Virginia--Social life and
customs--History--18th century. Trade on edge of upper Shenandoah
Valley between 1760 and 1810; how acquisition of consumer goods
created, validated set of ideas about taste, fashion, lifestyle
in particular place at particular time; social, economic systems
distilled into intimate triangulations among merchants,
customers, objects.
Susan J. Matt (2003).
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society,
1890-1930. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 223 p.). Social values--United States--History;
Envy--Social aspects; Social status--United States--History;
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States; Social
change--United States--History--20th century.
Grant McCracken (1988).
Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic
Character of Consumer Goods and Activities.
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 174 p.). Consumption
(Economics)--History; Civilization--History; Social
values--History.
--- (2005).
Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand
Management. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,
226 p.). Visiting Scholar at McGill University. Consumption
(Economics)--History; Civilization--History; Social
values--History.
John L. McCreery (2000).
Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary
Shoppers: An Anthropologist Reads Research by the Hakuhodo
Institute of Life and Living. (Honolulu, HI: University
of Hawaii Press, 278 p.). Consumer behavior--Japan.
Forrest McDonald (1974).
The Phaeton Ride; The Crisis of American Success.
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 255 p.). United States -- Economic
conditions; United States -- Economic policy. Economic history
of a consumer society.
Charles F. McGovern (2006).
Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 528 p.).
Associate Professor of American Studies and History (College of
William and Mary), Former Curator at the National Museum of
American History. Consumption (Economics)--Political
aspects--United States--History; Consumer behavior--Political
aspects--United States--History. Key players active in shaping
cultural evolution of constant spending to meet material needs
and develop social identity and self-cultivation.
Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J.H. Plumb
(1982).
The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of
Eighteenth-Century England. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 345 p.). Consumers--England--History--18th
century; Consumption (Economics)--England--History--18th
century; Leisure--England--History--18th century;
England--Economic conditions--18th century.
James U. McNeal (2007).
On Becoming a Consumer: Development of Consumer Behavior
Patterns in Childhood. (Boston, MA: Academic Press
(Butterworth-Heinemann), 432 p.). Professor of Marketing (Texas
A&M University). Consumer behavior--United States; Child
consumers--United States. How consumer development is intertwined with cognitive and motor
development; 'process' of how young children become consumers;
consumer behavior in stages of development.
Laura J. Miller (2006).
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of
Consumption. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,
328 p.). Assistant Professor of Sociology (Brandeis University).
Booksellers and bookselling--United States; Bookstores--United
States; Books--Purchasing--United States; Books and
reading--United States; Consumption (Economics)--Social
aspects--United States; Consumer behavior--United States.
Consumer behavior is inevitably
political, with consequences for communities, commercial
institutions.
Toby Miller (2006).
Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and
Television in a Neoliberal Age. (Philadelphia, PA:
Temple University Press, 248 p.). Professor of English,
Sociology, and Women's Studies, Director of the Program in Media
& Cultural Studies (University of California, Riverside).
Culture--Study and teaching--United States; Consumption
(Economics)--United States; Mass media--United States; United
States--Politics and government. How obsession with consumption
has displaced concern for politics and citizenship.
Louis E. V. Nevaer (2004).
The Rise of the Hispanic Market in the United States:
Challenges, Dilemmas, and Opportunities for Corporate Management.
(Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 255 p.). Hispanic American consumers;
Market segmentation--United States; Target marketing--United
States; North America--Economic integration.
Monica Neve (2010).
Sold : Advertising and the Bourgeois Female Consumer in Munich,
1900-1914. (Stuttgart, Germany: Steiner, 257 p.).
Lecturer in Business English (Zurich University of Applied
Sciences)5. Advertising and women -- Germany -- Munich --
History -- 20th century; Women consumers -- Germany -- Munich --
History -- 20th century. 'Feminization of consumption'; how
development of specific ideas about relationship between women
and shopping at turn of 20th century contributed to shopping's
becoming widely accepted as gender-specific activity; how
shopping became established as female responsibility for
maintenance of cultural, aesthetic norms.
Daniel Nissanoff (2006).
FutureShop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the
Way We Buy, Sell, and Get the Things We Really Want.
(New York, NY: Penguin Press, 256 p.). Web Entrepreneur,
Co-Founded Portero (online facilitation company specializing in
the resale of luxury goods), founded Partminer, one of the first
successful online b2b exchanges. Internet auctions;
Secondhand trade. Online auction
"facilitators" will make buying and selling so hassle-free, so
reliable, so lucrative - masses of consumers won't stay away.
Richard L. Oliver (1997). Satisfaction: A
Behavioral Perspective on the Consumer. (New York, NY:
McGraw Hill, 432 p.). Consumer satisfaction; Consumer
satisfaction--Evaluation.
John O'Shaughnessy (1987).
Why People Buy. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
195 p.). Consumer behavior; Motivation research (Marketing);
Purchasing.
Lisa Sun-Hee Park (2005).
Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs.
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 169 p.). Assistant
Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department and the Urban Studies
and Planning Program (University of California, San Diego).
Korean Americans--Cultural assimilation; Chinese
Americans--Cultural assimilation; Children of immigrants--United
States--Social conditions; Immigrants--United States--Social
conditions; Children of immigrants--United States--Interviews;
Asian Americans--Interviews; Family-owned business
enterprises--Social aspects--United States; Consumption
(Economics)--Social aspects--United States; Korean
Americans--Economic conditions; Chinese Americans--Economic
conditions. How Korean
American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial
immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans
through conspicuous consumption.
Jennifer Patico (2008).
Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class.
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 244 p.). Assistant
Professor, Department of Anthropology (Georgia State
University). Middle class --Russia (Federation) --Saint
Petersburg --Economic conditions; Professional employees
--Russia (Federation) --Saint Petersburg --Economic conditions;
Consumption (Economics) --Social aspects --Russia (Federation)
--Saint Petersburg; Social change --Russia (Federation) --Saint
Petersburg; Cost and standard of living --Russia (Federation)
--Saint Petersburg; Saint Petersburg (Russia) --Economic
conditions; Saint Petersburg (Russia) --Social conditions.
How teachers in Saint Petersburg, Russia have adjusted their activities,
interactions as consumers as marketization, privatization
pressures left them unable to
attain respectable material
standards of living; how this has led to dramatic shifts in
assessments of their own lives, of society.
Linda Levy Peck (2005).
Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century
England. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 431
p.). Columbian Professor of History (George Washington
University). Consumption (Economics)--England--History--17th
century; Luxuries--England--History--17th century;
Shopping--England--History--17th century; England--Social life
and customs--17th century; England--Economic conditions--17th
century; Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714. Consumption of luxury goods
transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies,
economy in seventeenth-century England.
Tom Pendergast (2000).
Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer
Culture, 1900-1950. (Columbia, MO: University of
Missouri Press, 289 p.). Masculinity--United
States--History--20th century; Body image in men--United States;
Men in mass media--United States; Men in popular culture--United
States; Consumption (Economics)--United States.
Eduardo Porter (2011).
The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What
We Do. (New York, NY: Portfolio Penguin, 304 p.).
Editorial Board Member (The New York Times). Value; Values.
Constant, often unconscious, cost and
value assessments made every day; how critical prices motivate,
shape lives; story behind
prices; what prices tell us.
Virginia Postrel (2003).
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is
Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness. (New
York, NY: HarperCollins, 237 p.). Aesthetics.
David M. Potter (1954).
People of Plenty; Economic Abundance and the American Character.
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 219 p.). National
characteristics, American; United States -- Economic conditions.
Jeremy Prestholdt (2008).
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies
of Globalization. (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 273 p.). Assistant Professor History
(University of California, San Diego). Consumer
behavior--Africa, Eastern; Globalization--Africa, Eastern.
New perspective on global
interconnectivity in 19th century; East African consumers'
changing desires for material complex webs of local consumer
demands that affected patterns of exchange, production as far
away as India, United States; Africa's global relationships not
always dictated by outsiders; forgotten trajectories of global
trade, consumption; histories of intersecting, reciprocal
relationships across vast distances foreshadow contemporary
globalization.
Daniel L. Purdy (1998).
The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era
of Goethe. (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 301 p.). Assistant Professor in the Department of
Germanic Languages (Columbia University). Consumption
(Economics)--Germany--History--19th century; Consumer
behavior--Germany--History--19th century;
Fashion--Germany--History--19th century; Fashion in literature.
Alissa Quart (2002).
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.
(Cambridge, MA: Perseus Pub., 239 p.). Brand name
products--Marketing; Teenage consumers; Consumer behavior;
Consumers' preferences.
Mary Lou Quinlan (2003).
Just Ask a Woman: Cracking the Code of What Women Want and How
They Buy. (New York, NY: Wiley, 260 p.). Women
consumers--United States; Marketing--United States;
Women--United States--Attitudes.
Erika Diane Rappaport (2000).
Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 323 p.). Associate
Professor, Department of History (University of California,
Santa Barbara). Consumer
behavior--England--London--Sex differences--History; Consumption
(Economics)--England--London--Sex differences--History; Women
consumers--England--London--History; Department
stores--England--London--History; West End (London,
England)--Economic conditions. Social and
cultural history of London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as
entertainment and retail center - essential interplay between
rise of consumer society, birth of modern femininity, making of
contemporary London.
Eds. S. Ratneshwar, David Glen Mick, and
Cynthia Huffman. (2000).
The Why of Consumption: Contemporary Perspectives on Consumer
Motives, Goals and Desires. ( New York, NY: Routledge,
330 p.). Consumer behavior; Consumers--Research.
Eds. S. Ratneshwar and David Glen Mick (2005).
Inside Consumption. (New York, NY: Routledge, 356 p.).
Consumer behavior; Consumers--Research. Modern-day issues in consumer
motivation.
Eds. Gideon Reuveni and Nils Roemer (2010).
Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture.
(Boston, MA: Brill, 233 p.). Lecturer for Modern Jewish and
European history (University of Melbourne); Associate Professor
of Jewish Studies (University of Texas at Dallas). Jewish
consumers; Consumer behavior; Judaism and culture; Consumers --
Attitudes; Jews -- Identity; Jews -- Social life and customs;
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Consumption
(Economics) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Jewish belongings
and longings; Jewish consumer culture as vehicle of integration,
identity in modern times.
Ed. Rengenier C. Rittersma (2011).
Luxury in the Low Countries: Miscellaneous Reflections on
Netherlandish Material Culture, 1500 to the Present.
(Brussels, Belgium: Pharo, 271 p.). Alexander von Humboldt
Fellow (Institute of European History and Saarland University).
Luxury -- Congresses; Luxuries -- Belgium -- Congresses;
Luxuries -- Netherlands -- Congresses; Collectors and collecting
-- Belgium -- Congresses; Collectors and collecting --
Netherlands -- Congresses; Art -- Collectors and collecting --
Belgium -- Congresses; Art -- Collectors and collecting --
Netherlands -- Congresses; Gastronomy -- Belgium -- Congresses;
Gastronomy -- Netherlands -- Congresses.
Economic forces that produced boom in luxury goods; wealth,
social display that fueled search for rare commodities.
Daniel Roche; translated by Brian Pearce
(2000).
A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in
France, 1600-1800. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 309 p.). Consumption (Economics)--History; Consumer
behavior--History; Social history.
Ed. Roger Rosenblatt (1999).
Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of
Happiness. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 230 p.).
Consumption (Economics)--United States; Consumer
behavior--United States; Individualism--United States; Mass
society; United States--Social conditions--1980-.
Eli Rubin (2008).
Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the
German Democratic Republic. (Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 286 p.). Assistant
professor of history (Western Michigan University).
Consumption (Economics) -- Germany (East); Consumer
behavior -- Germany (East); Plastics industry and trade
-- Germany (East); Socialism and society.
History of East Germany through
production, use of plastic - high-technology material,
symbol of socialism's scientific, economic superiority
over capitalism, of particularly special quality, not to
be thrown away like products of wasteful West; deep
resonance of modern, socialist dimension of
plastics-based everyday life.
Larry Samuel (2009).
Rich: The Rise and Fall of American Wealth Culture.
(New York, NY: Amacom, 320 p.). Psychotherapist. Rich
people --United States; Wealth --United States.
Understanding country's
wealthiest, most enigmatic class; American obsession
with money in perspective,
context; origins of upper class; history of American
rich from 1920 to today; rise of first mass affluent
class in America, virtual demise of old money.
Roberta Sassatelli (2007).
Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics. (Los
Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications, 237 p.). Consumption
(Economics); Consumers--Attitudes; Marketing--Social aspects.
Ann Satterthwaite (2001).
Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences.
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 386 p.). City Planner
(Washington, DC). Cities and towns--History; City and town
life--History; Shopping--Social aspects--History;
Consumers--History; Sociology, Urban.
Herbert I. Schiller (1989).
Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 201 p.). Former
Professor of Communication (University of California-San Diego).
Communication--Political aspects-United States;
Communication--Economic aspects--United States;
Corporations--United States; Popular culture--United
States--History--20th century.
Leigh Eric Schmidt (1995).
Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidays.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 363 p.).
Holidays--Economic aspects--United States; United
States--Religious life and customs; United States--Economic
conditions.
Juliet B. Schor (1998).
The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New
Consumer (Why
Want What We Don't Need) . (New York, NY: Basic Books,
253 p.). Economist (Harvard). Consumer behavior--United States;
Consumption (Economics)--United States; Credit--United States;
Debt--United States; Finance, Personal--United States;
Lifestyles--United States; Saving and thrift--United States;
Values--United States.
--- (2004).
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer
Culture. (New York, NY: Scribner, 275 p.). Child
consumers United States; Young consumers United States;
Advertising and children United States; Materialism Social
aspects United States; Child development United States; Children
United States Social conditions; Child welfare United States.
Micheal Schudson (1984).
Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on
American Society. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 288 p.).
Advertising--United States--History.
Katherine Sender (2005).
Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market.
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 320 p.). Assistant
Professor (Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania). Gay consumers--United States; Lesbian
consumers--United States; Marketing--United States.
Barry Schwartz (2004).
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less. (New York, NY:
Ecco Press, 288 p.). Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor of Social
Theory and Social Action (Swarthmore). Choice (Psychology);
Decision making.
John Seabrook (2000). NoBrow: The Culture
of Marketing the Marketing of Culture. (New York, NY: Knopf,
215 p.). Writer (New Yorker). Mass media and culture--United
States; Popular culture--United States.
Carole Shammas (1990). The Pre-Industrial
Consumer in England and America. (New York, NY: Oxford
University, 319 p.). Historian (University of
California-Riverside). Consumption (Economics) -- Great Britain
-- History -- 18th century; Consumption (Economics) -- United
States -- History -- 18th century; Home-based businesses --
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Home-based businesses
-- United States -- History -- 18th century; Cost and standard
of living -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Cost and
standard of living -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Brent Alan Shannon (2006).
The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in
Britain, 1860-1914. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press,
252 p.). Visiting Professor of English (Transylvania University,
Lexington, KY). Male consumers--Great Britain--History; Men’s
clothing--England--History; Social classes--England--History;
Masculinity--England--History; Consumption
(Economics)--England--History. Role of middle class men as
active participants in birth of modern consumer culture from
1860 to turn of 20th century.
Eds. Elizabeth Shove, Frank
Trentmann, Richard Wilk (2009).
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and
Culture. (New York, NY: Berg, 256 p.). Professor of
Sociology (Lancaster University); Professor of History (Birkbeck
College, University of London); Professor of Anthropology and
Gender Studies (Indiana University). Changing rhythms, temporal
organization of everyday life; how routines, rhythms, their
emotional and political dynamics are anchored in material
culture, everyday practice; questions of coordination and
disruption; cycles and seasons; interplay between power and
freedom, between material and natural forces.
Rachel Shteir (2011).
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting. (New
York, Ny: Penguin, 272 p.). Associate Professor, Head of the BFA
Program in Criticism and Dramaturgy (Theatre School at DePaul
University). Shoplifting --History.
Shoplifting as crime, disease, protest; why 27 million Americans
shoplift everything from condoms and Bibles to much more
conspicuous items like kayaks and rugs; evolution of
shoplifting: 1) London - urbanization, consumerism made London
into Europe's busiest mercantile capital; 2) 19th-century Paris
- rise of department store, pathologizing of shoplifting as
kleptomania; 1960s America - symbol of resistance (publication
of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book popularized shoplifting as
antiestablishment act); 2011 - response to culture of
hyper-consumerism?; tied to economic downturns? few theories;
responses of police and of stores; punished by death,
discouraged by shame tactics, protected against by high-tech
surveillance; treated by psychoanalysis, medicated with
pharmaceuticals, enforced by law to attend rehabilitation groups
- no signs of slowing; crime tax" (amount every American family
loses to shoplifting-related price inflation = more than
$400/year; 2009 - cost American retailers $11.7 billion (theft
of one $5.00 item from Whole Foods can require sales of hundreds
of dollars to break even).
Michael J. Silverstein and Neil Fiske, with
John Butman. (2005).
Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods--and How
Companies Create Them. (New York, NY: Portfolio, 316
p.). Senior Vice President of Boston Consulting Group, President
(Bath & Body Works); Luxury; Cost and standard of living--United
States; Quality of products--United States.
Why people are willing to spend
beyond their means for certain premium goods.
Michael J. Silverstein with John Butman
(2006).
Treasure Hunt: Inside the Mind of the New Consumer. (New
York, NY: Portfolio, 272 p.). Senior Vice President of The
Boston Consulting Group. Consumer behavior; Middle class.
Offer the perception of good
value for money and an emotionally satisfying experience.
Woodruff D. Smith (2002).
Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800.
(New York, NY: Routledge, 339 p.). Consumption
(Economics)--Europe--History; Culture--Economic
aspects--Europe--History; Europe--Social life and customs.
Eds. Kate Soper, Martin Ryle,
and Lyn Thomas (2009).
Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently: Better
than Shopping. (New York, NY: Palgrave
Macmillan, 224 p.). Professor of Philosophy (London
Metropolitan University, UK); Reader in the Centre for
Continuing Education (University of Sussex, UK); Deputy
Director of the Institute for the Study of European
Transformations (London Metropolitan University, UK).
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Consumption
(Economics) -- Environmental aspects; Consumption
(Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Shopping.
Quality of life. Representations,
practices of consumption in Western world; themes of
counter-consumerism, ecological crisis, sustainability
that are rising on political, cultural agenda.
Herb Sorensen (2009).
Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing.
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publ., 212 p.). Expert
on In-Store Consumer Behavior; patented shopper-tracking
technology PathTracker. Retail trade; Consumer behavior;
Marketing; Stores, Retail --Design and construction.
Present
right products to right shoppers at right time; eliminate
merchandise that costs sales; three different groups of shopping
excursions; how customers "migrate" within store; how to use
"active retailing"; get shopper to buy as quickly as possible.
Joel H. Spring (2002).
Educating the Consumer: A History of the Marriage of Schools,
Advertising, and Media. (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum,
254 p.). Consumer behavior--United States--History; Consumer
education--United States--History; Advertising--United
States--History; Mass media--United States--History.
Adam C. Stanley (2008).
Modernizing Tradition: Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France
and Germany. (Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State
University Press, 261 p.). Assistant Professor of History
(University of Wisconsin, Platteville). Consumption (Economics)
--Sex differences --France --History --20th century; Consumption
(Economics) --Sex differences --Germany --History --20th
century; Women --France --History --20th century; Women
--Germany --History --20th century. How interwar French, German popular culture
used commercial images to redefine femininity in way that
granted women some access to modern life without encouraging
assertion of female independence; how media attempted to
convince women that newly available consumer goods could
empower, liberate their being a mother or housewife.
Peter H. Stearns (2001).
Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of
Desire. (New York, NY: Routledge, 147 p.). George Mason
University. Consumption (Economics)--History.
Judd Stitziel (2005).
Fashioning Socialism: Clothing, Politics, and Consumer Culture
in East Germany. (New York, NY: Berg, 260 p.).
Consumption (Economics)--Germany (East); Consumer
behavior--Germany (East); Clothing trade--Germany (East);
Fashion--Germany (East) Socialism--Germany (East).
Jon Stobart, Andrew Hann, and Victoria Morgan
(2007).
Spaces of Consumption: Leisure and Shopping in the English Town,
1680-1830. (New York, NY: Routledge, 247 p.).
Consumption (Economics) --England --History; Consumers --England
--History; Cities and towns --England --History.
Spatially -
moments of consumption (selecting and purchasing goods,
attending plays, promenading); ways in which these were related
through spaces of town: the shop, the theatre the street.;
sociability, politeness, respectability in 18th century.
Susan Strasser (1995).
Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market.
(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 339 p. [orig. pub. 1989]).
Advertising--United States--Psychological aspects--History;
Consumers--United States--History; Sales promotion--United
States--History; Brand name products--United States--History.
Ed. Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, Matthias
Judt (1998).
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies
in the Twentieth Century. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 477 p.). Consumption (Economics)--United
States--History--20th century; Consumption
(Economics)--Europe--History--20th century; Consumption
(Economics)--Germany--History--20th century; Material
culture--United States--History--20th century; Material
culture--Europe--History--20th century; Material
culture--Germany--History--20th century.
Susan Mosher Stuard (2006).
Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century
Italy. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 344 p.). Professor of History Emeritus (Haverford
College). Luxury goods industry--Italy--History--To 1500;
Luxuries--Italy--History--To 1500; Clothing and
dress--Italy--History--Medieval, 500-1500;
Fashion--Italy--History--To 1500; Consumption
(Economics)--Italy--History--To 1500; Italy--Economic
conditions. Arrival of
fashion in European history.
Eds. John Styles, Amanda Vickery (2007).
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North
America, 1700-1830. (New Haven, CT: Paul Mellon Centre
for Studies in British Art / The Yale Center for British Art /
Yale University Press, 368 p.). Research Professor in History
(University of Hertfordshire); Reader in the History of Women
and Gender at Royal Holloway (University of London). Material
culture. Compares
developments in Britain and North America between 1700 and 1830
- profound significance of everyday objects in
eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Deyan Sudjic (2009).
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable
Objects. (New York, NY: Norton, 208 p.). Director of the
Design Museum, London. Design --Philosophy; Design --Social
aspects. Interaction between art, design, commerce;
how we can be manipulated, seduced by
possessions; where design ends, art begins.
Dana Thomas (2007).
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. (New York, NY:
Penguin Press, 384 p.). Cultural, Fashion Writer for Newsweek in
Paris. Luxury goods industry; Consumer behavior; Consumption
(Economics)--Social aspects. How 'massification' of luxury
goods has ensured that luxury isn't luxurious any longer;
industry run by massive corporations focused only on growth,
visibility, brand awareness, advertising, profits.
Susan Gregory Thomas (2007).
Buy, Buy Baby: The Mass Seduction of Our Youngest Consumers, and
How It’s Changing the American Family. (Boston, MA:
Houghton Mifflin, 288 p.). Former Senior Editor (U.S. News and
World Report). Child consumers; Advertising and children.
Kids are becoming consumers at alarmingly young ages; suffer all
ills that rampant materialism visits on adults--anxiety,
hyper-competitiveness, depression.
Ed. Frank Trentmann (2006).
The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the
Modern World. (New York, NY: Berg, 256 p.). Senior
Lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at
Birkbeck College (University of London). Consumers; Consumption
(Economics); Consumer behavior. Rise of the consumer; evolution
of consumer in relation to citizenship and ethics, law and
economics, media, work, retailing.
Gunnar Trumbull (2006).
Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets, and Firm
Strategy in France and Germany. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 186 p.). Assistant Professor at Harvard
Business School. Consumer protection--France; Consumer
protection--Germany; Consumption (Economics)--France;
Consumption (Economics)--Germany; Capitalism--France;
Capitalism--Germany; Product management--France; Product
management--Germany. Origins of national systems of consumer protection in France and
Germany; national competitiveness may hinge on labor and
capital, and on institutional forms of national consumption.
James B. Twitchell (1992).
Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America. (New
York, NY: Columbia University Press, 306 p.). Professor of
English and Advertising (University of Florida). Mass
media--United States; Popular culture--United States.
--- (1999).
Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism.
(New York, NY: Coilumbia University Press, 310 p.). Professor of
English and Advertising (University of Florida). Consumption,
Materialism. Author claims that shopping and consuming define
our culture. See also: Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to
Satisfy in an Era of Excess by Robert H. Frank (New York,
NY: Free Press, 1999).
--- (2002).
Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury. (New York,
NY: Columbia University Press, 309 p.). Professor of English
(University of Florida). Affluent consumers--Psychology;
Luxuries--Marketing. Consumption habits of Americans - written
like a field anthropologist.
Paco Underhill (1999).
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping. (New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster, 255 p.). Social Anthropologist. Marketing
research; Consumer behavior; Shopping. Tends to tell more about
how we buy than why we buy.
--- (2004).
The Call of the Mall: A Walking Tour Through the Crossroads of
Our Shopping Culture. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster,
227 p.). Social Anthropologist. Shopping malls--United States;
Consumption (Economics)--United States; Consumers--United
States--Attitudes.
Thorstein Veblen (1979).
The Theory of the Leisure Class. (New York, NY: Penguin,
400 p. [orig. pub. 1899]). Leisure class.
Lorna Weatherill (1988).
Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760.
(New York, NY: Routledge, 252 p.). Consumers--Great
Britain--History--17th century; Consumers--Great
Britain--History--18th century; Great Britain--Economic
conditions--17th century; Great Britain--Economic
conditions--18th century; Great Britain--Social conditions--17th
century; Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.
Robert E. Weems, Jr. (1998).
Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the
Twentieth Century. (New York, NY: New York University
Press, 195 p.). African American consumers -- History -- 20th
century; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Michael J. Weiss (1994).
Latitudes & Attitudes: An Atlas of American Tastes, Trends,
Politics, and Passions: from Abilene, Texas to Zanesville, Ohio.
(Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 224 p.). Premier Demographics
Expert. Consumers--United States--Attitudes; Consumers--United
States--Attitudes--Maps; National characteristics, American;
National characteristics, American--Maps; United States--Social
life and customs--1971-.
--- (1998).
The Clustering of America. (New York, NY: Harper & Row,
416 p.). Premier Demographics Expert. Consumers'
preferences--United States; Postal zones--Social aspects--United
States; Social surveys--United States; United States--Social
conditions--1980-; United States--Social life and
customs--1971-.
--- (2000).
The Clustered World: How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All
Means About Who We Are. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
Premier Demographics Expert. Consumers' preferences--United
States; Postal zones--Social aspects--United States; Social
surveys--United States; United States--Social conditions--1980-;
United States--Social life and customs--1971-.
Evelyn Welch (2005).
Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy
1400-1600. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 256
p.). Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of
London. Consumers--Italy--History--To 1500;
Consumers--Italy--History--16th century;
Shopping--Italy--History--To 1500;
Shopping--Italy--History--16th century. Renaissance
material culture.
Tammy C. Whitlock (2005).
Crime, Gender, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century
England. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 256 p.). Professor in
the Department of History (University of Kentucky). Retail
trade--England--History--19th century; Consumption
(Economics)--England--History--19th century; Women
consumers--England--History--19th century; Consumer
behavior--England--Sex differences--History--19th century;
Crime--England--History--19th century; England--Social life and
customs--History--19th century.
Peter C. Whybrow (2005).
American Mania: When More is Not Enough. (New York, NY:
Norton, 338 p.). Director of the Semel Institute of Neuroscience
and Human Behavior UCLA); Judson Braun Professor and Executive
Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
UCLA Medical School). Social values--United States;
Wealth--Social aspects--United States; Consumption
(Economics)--Health aspects--United States;
Self-interest--United States; Social ethics--United States;
Happiness; National characteristics, American--history.
S. Jonathan Wiesen (2010).
Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the
Third Reich. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 277 p.). Associate Professor of History (Southern
Illinois University). Consumption (Economics) -- Germany --
History -- 20th century; Consumer behavior -- Germany -- History
-- 20th century; Marketing -- Germany -- History -- 20th
century; Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945; National
socialism. Marketing, advertising, consumer research in Third
Reich; how National Socialism created distinctive world of
buying and selling; ways corporate leaders, everyday Germans
navigated "the Nazi marketplace"; Nazi marketplace central to
regime's promise of future consumer abundance, realization of
individual achievement, creation of purified 'racial community.
Rosalind H. Williams (1982).
Dream Worlds, Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France.
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 451 p.). Dean for
Undergraduate Education and Metcalf Professor of Writing (MIT).
Consumers -- France -- History.
Michael J. Wolf (1999).
The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces Are
Transforming Our Lives. (New York, NY: Times Books, 314
p.). Senior Partner, Booz Allen & Hamilton. Television
broadcasting--Social aspects; Motion pictures--Social aspects;
Leisure industry; Popular culture.
Sharon Zukin (2004).
Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture.
(New York, NY: Routledge, 325 p.). Professor of Sociology (City
University of New York). Consumption (Economics)--Social
aspects--United States; Shopping--Social aspects--United
States--History; Consumer behavior--United States--History.
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Business History Links
American Consumer Culture
(MIT Open Courseware)
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-206American-Consumer-CultureFall2001/CourseHome/index.htm
Examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define
the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material
abundance. Explores how such things as department stores,
advertising, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the
American economy, society and politics.
100 Years of US Consumer Spending: Data
for the Nation, New York City, and Boston
http://www.bls.gov/opub/uscs/
The authors use "consumer expenditure data longitudinally and
draw on information from decennial census reports to present a
100-year history of significant changes in consumer spending,
economic status, and family demographics in the country as a
whole, as well as in New York City and Boston."
The Conference Board:
Consumer Confidence
http://www.conference-board.org/economics/consumerConfidence.cfm
Provides current U.S. consumer attitudes about purchasing
intentions. Updated monthly. The "Economic Press Archive"
provides articles about survey results for the past year and
material about surveys for other regions of the world. The full
reports are available for a fee. From a membership organization
that "disseminates knowledge about management and the
marketplace to help businesses."
Gottlieb Duttweiler
Institute
http://www.gdi.ch/index.php?id=2&L=1
Gottlieb Duttweiler, founder of Migros AG (grocery retailing
business), shaped Swiss economic history; 1962 - laid the
foundation for GDI for the purpose of building up an independent
research institute for economic and social studies. GDI is
Switzerland’s oldest and most independent think tank; it focuses
on the subjects of consumption, trade and society; it observes
the trends and counter-trends which are relevant for the market
and society.
The Material Culture Institute
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/materialculture/index.cfm
Based in the Department of Human Ecology, Faculty of
Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, and the Faculty
of Arts. The aim of the Material Culture Institute is to devise
programming, conferences, symposia and visiting speakers, that
will offer a multi-disciplinary perspective on past and present
societies, advancing research into human interaction with built
environments and materials goods of all sorts.
The Robert Opie Collection
http://www.robertopiecollection.com/
Built up since 1963, The Collection now contains over 500,000
items which together tell the extraordinary story of Britain's
consumer society, its lifestyle and culture - dramatic changes
that have happened as a result of and since the Industrial
Revolution.
Prosperity and Thrift: the Coolridge Era and the Consumer
Economy 1921-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
The Prosperity and Thrift web site from the Library of Congress
provides access to full-text material that documents the
prosperity enjoyed by the United States during the Coolidge
years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and
the role of government in this transition.
Trendwatching.com
http://www.trendwatching.com/
trendwatching.com is an independent and opinionated trend firm,
scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends,
insights and related hands-on business ideas. For the latest and
greatest, we rely on our network of 8,000+ spotters in more than
70 countries worldwide. We report on our findings in free,
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