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Consumption in an Age of Information
Bloomsbury Publishing 2005; US$ 109.95Consumption is so dominant it allows little room for alternatives. Bringing together the leading theorists and critics, the essays range across high theory and popular culture - from informational flows to science fiction simulations, from pop-cultural consumption to capitalism as religion, and to the role of 'speed' in contemporary culture. more...
Leisure and Consumption
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00The study of consumption has never seriously examined the role of leisure. This ambitious, agenda-setting study, provides the most in-depth examination of the relationship between the two to date, drawing on the serious leisure perspective and outlining a new conceptual framework for analyzing consumption for leisure. more...
Spaces for Consumption
SAGE Publications 2010; US$ 51.00An engaging exploration of the social, economic and cultural processes that have resulted in our cities being defined through consumption. more...
Consumer Culture and Personal Finance
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book explores the personal savings and credit discourses surrounding post-war British consumer culture. This cultural history highlights the contradictory meanings of home ownership, domesticity, women's consumerism, and banking deregulation that underwrote unprecedented financial crisis and consumer indebtedness. more...
Consumptionomics
Infinite Ideas 2010; US$ 22.95Consumption has been the fuel that has driven the engine of global capitalism. The recent financial crisis has seen the West's leading economists and policy makers urging Asia to make a conscious effort to consume more and thereby help save the global economy. This is a view shaped by conventional wisdom which conveniently refuses to acknowledge... more...
Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade. more...
Household Economic Behaviors
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99Significant recent changes in the structure and composition of households make the study of the economic relationships within the household of particular interest for academics and policy-makers. In this context, Household Economic Behaviors, through its focus on theoretical and empirical chapters on a range of economic behaviors within the household,... more...
The Household
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 21.95Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings, social considerations, and economic constraints all influence how household participants select their homemates... more...
The Secret Financial Life of Food
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 25.99One morning while reading Barron?s magazine, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. ?Buy breakfast,? he told investors, referring to the value of rising pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The statement inspired Newman to take a closer look at agricultural commodities, from the iconic... more...
From Oikonomia to Political Economy
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 134.95Renaissance Europe witnessed a surge of interest in science, with new ideas and theories being applied to all aspects of life. Whilst the study of this Scientific Revolution has dramatically shifted our appreciation of many facets of the early-modern world, remarkably little attention has been paid to its influence upon one key area; that of economics.... more...









