Article
Explaining, Assessing, and Changing High Consumption
Radical Philosophy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2003
Disciplines
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev20036213
Abstract
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.
Rights
This is a post-print version of an article originally published in Radical Philosophy Review, 2005, Volume 8, Issue 2.
.The version of record is available through: Philosophy Documentation Center.
Citation Information
Harry van der Linden. "Explaining, Assessing, and Changing High Consumption" Radical Philosophy Vol. 6 Iss. 2 (2003) p. 179 - 189 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/21/