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Book SynopsisThis compendium curates and amplifies the voices of the leading scholars in consumer psychology across a wide range of topics. An indispensable resource for scholars and non-specialists, it also offers foundational and novel knowledge for adjacent fields such as marketing, economics, data science, management, and sociology.Trade Review'Lamberton, Rucker and Spiller have assembled a masterwork on consumer psychology. This book brings together some of the most highly regarded thought leaders across a variety of interesting research areas to provide a comprehensive overview that is both topical and timeless. It challenges the reader with intriguing research possibilities likely to inspire decades of research to come.' Kelly Goldsmith, Vanderbilt University, USA'An impressive collection of insights from leading experts on consumer psychology. This is the state of the science – a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of decision-making, motivation, and persuasion, the roles of religion, politics, and status, and the impact of new methods and technologies.' Adam Grant, Wharton psychologist and no.1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again'A best-in-class handbook should capture the most incisive insights and forward-looking ideas of the leading thinkers in the field, and the Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology does exactly this. With scholars expert in the most central issues to marketing today – from artificial intelligence to the broader role of marketing in society – this volume offers a comprehensive view of the field as it stands today, and how it is likely to change in the years to come.' Michael I. Norton, Harvard Business School, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Attitudinal advocacy: contemporary insights and new questions Mohamed A. Hussein and Zakary L. Tormala; 2. Storytelling and narrative persuasion Rebecca Krause-Galoni and Philip Mazzaocco; 3. Consumer goals and motivation Jessica Gamlin and Maferima Touré-Tillery; 4. Consumer financial decision making Abigail B. Sussman, Yusu Wang and Anastasiya Apalkova; 5. Marketplace morality Saerom Lee and Karen Page Winterich; 6. A triadic framework of luxury consumption David Dubois and SungJin Jang; 7. Consumer identity: a comprehensive review and integration of contemporary research Julian K. Saint Clair; 8. Compensatory consumption Naomi Mandel, Monika Lisjack and Qin Wang; 9. Artificial intelligence and consumer psychology TaeWoo Kim and Adam Duhachek; 10. Interpersonal influences in consumer psychology Rosellina Ferraro and Brent McFerran; 11. The psychology of consumer social hierarchy and rank signaling Derek D. Rucker and Adam D. Galinsky; 12. Political ideology and consumer psychology Nailya Ordabayeva, Aylin Cakalar and Daniel Fernandes; 13. Religion and consumer psychology Eugenia Wu and Keisha Cutright; 14. The psychology of consumer dignity Tom Wein, Sakshi Ghai, Cait Lamberton, and Neela A. Saldanha; 15. The psychology of shared consumption Peggy J. Liu and Theresa A. Kwon; 16. The psychology of access-based consumption Varala Maraj and Fleura Bardhi; 17. Word-of-mouth and consumer psychology Sarah Moore and Katie Lafreniere; 18. Consumer culture Ela Veresiu; 19. Field studies in consumer psychology Minah Jung; 20. MTurk and online panel research Joseph K. Goodman and Scott A. Wright; 21. Meta-analysis: assessing heterogeneity using traditional and contemporary approaches Blakeley B. McShane and Ulf Böckenholt; 22. Netnography for consumer psychologists Robert V. Kozinets; 23. A recipe for honest consumer research Stijn M. J. van Osselaer and Chris Janiszewski.

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Book SynopsisIn this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our “Consumers’ Republic” Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.

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Book SynopsisToday''s established companies must find new ways to reignite their entrepreneurial DNA and jumpstart revenues--or risk losing their way. By working with startup companies, Jim Stengel, renowned consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the former global marketing officer for Procter & Gamble, says that legacy companies can renew themselves: by acquiring new technology and creating new business lines; relearning the need for speed; sparking innovation; and learning from failures.        At P&G, Stengel saw the importance of establishing partnerships with the startup world in order to learn how to better innovate. Relying on extensive interviews with innovation leaders at enterprise companies and startups, Stengel’s Unleashing the Innovators takes readers inside such storied companies as GE and Wells Fargo, IBM and Target, Motorola Solutions and Toyota to see what they are learning from their alliances with

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Book SynopsisDeftly combining intellectual, cultural, and political history, Freedom from Want sheds new light on the ways in which Americans reconceptualized the place of the consumer in society and the implications of these shifting attitudes for the philosophy ofliberalism and the role of government in safeguarding the material welfare of the people.Trade ReviewAt the core of this volume 'is the story of how freedom from want, an economic freedom defined by classical liberalism, became one of the essential human freedoms of modern American liberalism'... Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, and Adam Smith are a few of the many thinkers whose work Donohue reviews... This scholarly volume deserves a wide audience. Choice 2004 A well-crafted example of traditional intellectual history. Donohue's close reading of the works of a variety of economic and political theorists not only provides interesting new insights into the thought of the individuals she examines, but also allows her to construct a compelling narrative of the dramatic change that occurred over a span of half a century in liberal thinking about the role of consumption and consumers in the political economy. -- Larry G. Gerber EH.Net 2004 This is an intelligent, well-researched, carefully nuanced book about the gradual displacement in U.S. liberalism of a producerist outlook by a consumerist perspective... Donohue gives us a rich intellectual history of the bases for the government-managed, full-growth, high-employment, demand-driven economy that flourished as an ideal, and to a considerable extent in practice, between the 1940s and the 1970s. -- Mary O. Furner Business History Review 2004 Donohue offers a powerful case intertwining economic, intellectual, and political history... A most valuable contribution to the history of American economic thought. -- Amy S. Bix Enterprise and Society 2005 A provocative update on the effort that has gone on at least since Alexis de Tocqueville's time to sort out the relationship between material desires and democracy. -- Alan Lawson Journal of American History 2005 An authoritative and well-researched account of the emergence of consumption and the consumer within American political economic thought. -- Matthew Hilton Business History 2005 Furthers understanding of the political history of mass consumption in the United States. -- Steven T. Sheehan Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2005 The book offers a well-researched and thoughtful history of ideas, and it should be of interest to economists as well as intellectual and economic historians. -- Susan J. Matt American Historical Review 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Producerist Worldview, 1870–19002. Legitimizing the Consumer, 1880–19003. At the Crossroads, 1899–19124. Politicizing the Consumer, 1909–19235. "What's an Economic System For?" 1917–19336. The Demise of Economic Planning, 1933–19407. The Common Ground of Abundance, 1933–1940ConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisUser Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.Trade Review"A thoughtful, even profound meditation on the relationship of technology and culture." (Robert C. Post, National Museum of American History)"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Our Marvelous and Maddening Machines1. The Advent of Technology Consumption2. Buying an Automobile3. Running a Car4. Tools, Tinkering, and Trouble5. Reading the Owner's Manual6. Computers and the Tyranny of Technology ConsumptionEpilogue: The Technology TreadmillAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDid Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with consequences lasting to this day? Is there a way for American citizens to recover democracy of, by, and for the people?Thom Hartmann takes on these most difficult questions and tells a startling story that will forever change your understanding of American history. Amongst a deep historical context, Hartmann describes the history of the Fourteenth Amendment created at the end of the Civil War to grant basic rights to freed slaves and how it has been used by lawyers representing corporate interests to extend additional rights to businesses far more frequently than to freed slaves. Prior to 1886, corporations were referred to in U.S. law as "artificial persons." But in 1886, after a series of cases brought by lawyers representing the expanding railroad interests, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were "persons" and entitled to the same rights granted to people under the Bill of Rights. Since this ruling, America has lost the legal structures that allowed for people to control corporate behavior. In this revised and expanded second edition, Hartmann incorporates specific examples from today's headlines and proposes specific legal remedies that could truly save the world from political, economic and ecological disaster.

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Book SynopsisNew Edition, Revised and Updatedaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague. The new edition traces the role overconsumption played in the Great Recession, discusses new ways to measure social health and success (such as the Gross Domestic Happiness index), and offers policy recommendations to make our society more simplicity-friendly. The underlying message isnât to stop buying - itâs to remember, always, that the best things in life arenât things.

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Book SynopsisPeter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius", and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? "Bottled and Sold" shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years - and why we are poorer for it. It's a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of commercially produced water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars. Have we simply been hoodwinked by corporate executives or are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist's eye and a natural storyteller's wit, Gleick investigates whether claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled vs. tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear-mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities. Jewel-encrusted "designer" H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society's choices about the human right to water, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being "green", and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for our most basic necessity to become a luxury.

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Book SynopsisHow can we imagine a technologized life that deviates from globalized norms and standardization and from our collective obsession with endless growth? ​In 'Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences', artist and cultural critic Dani Ploeger examines everyday technologies found in places and circumstances that are usually unforeseen by their designers, manufacturers and marketers. He travels through second-hand markets in sub-Saharan Africa, the frontline in the Russo-Ukrainian War, desert landscapes in the Middle East, anti-immigration fences on the EU border and many other sites of turmoil, disruption and surprising convergences. Examining the ways in which technologies that were intended for use in everyday consumer culture start to (mal)function, gain new meanings and are appropriated in these liminal spaces can give us hints at what alternative techno-cultures could look like. This collection of essays provokes unusual perspectives on how technologies might be developed, used and reappropriated in support of people’s personal, local and regional lifeworlds and lifestyles.Trade Review“Highly recommended for all scholars, thinkers, artists… well for anyone with an interest in stuff, things, technology, waste, bodies, consumerism, and so much else that’s going in our crazy, divided and imperilled world. Delivered in wonderfully erudite and insightful, not to mention often plainly hilarious, bite-sized chunks of smart observation and edgy practice across a myriad quotidian but often less visible lives and situations - and all entangled with enough theoretical sophistication to inspire critical reflection in any reader, without drowning them. In this book Ploeger and his diverse collaborators offer an exciting, and sometimes disturbing reflection upon some of the key issues of our time. Not to be missed.”; Joost Fontein, Professor of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg; "I very much recommend this very captivating read of Ploeger’s endeavour to highlight not only the wastages of our ‘throwaway’ society, but also globally explore and posit innovative ways that already exist or could exist to rethink and reappropriate technology, at the same time producing new significatory ways of technological being."; Susan Broadhurst, Professor Emerita of Performance and Technology, Brunel University London / Chair, Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA); “This book is gritty and provocative, asking us to review technologies through a radical vision. The festival, the event and the everyday come together in an enticing assemblage. Exceptional in terms of intellectual contributions and vantage point.”; Yasmin Ibrahim, Professor of Digital Economy and Culture, Queen Mary, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Tactical Transgressions: Bashar al-Assad’s phone 2. E-Waste in Cling Film: The symbolic order of technological progress 3. Hi-Tech Everything: A report from the heart of techno-consumerism 4. Eerie Prostheses and Kinky Strap-Ons: Mori’s uncanny valley and ableist ideology 5. The Dirt Inside: Computers and the performance of dust 6. Orodha: The ultimate fetish commodity and its reversal 7. Frugal Phone / Material Medium 8. Positioning the Middle of Nowhere: GPS technology and the desert 9. Sounds of Violence: The affective tonality of high-tech warfare 10. Smart Bombs, Bulldozers and the Technology of Hidden Destruction 11. Smart Technologies and Soviet Guns: The dialectics of postdigital warfare 12. Techno-Mythology on the Border: The pandemic risk society 13. Camera Surveillance and Barbed Wire 14. The Smart Fence is the Message: EU border barriers as violent media 15. The Deluxe Anti-Terrorist Barrier 16. Struggle and Expand: The Delta Works as colonial technology Postscript: Artificial techno-myths

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