Explaining, Assessing, and Changing High Consumption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12628560 |
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| Authors | Harry Van Der Linden (corresponding author), Philosophy Documentation Center |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 179-189 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical Philosophy Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1388-4441 • E-ISSN: 1569-1659 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/radphilrev20036213 |
| OpenAlex | W2135037636 |
| Language | EN |
These writings reflect the renewed interest in the 1990s of scholars and the public in questioning the consumer society, an interest that the political crises engendered by 9/11 have overshadowed but not eliminated. In The Overspent American, Schor explains the emergence of strong doubts about high consumption by arguing that a “new consumerism” of escalating desires has evolved that is increasingly costly to the American high consumers themselves
Business · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Social science · Sociology · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Consumer behavior in food and health · Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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