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"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." —Jackson Lears

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"Barber delivers a frightening analysis of the way consumerism is vitiating shoppers in the United States and around the world." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"This lifelong study of the effects of capitalism and privatization reveals a pervasiveness of branding and homogenization from which there is no turning back." -- Booklist
"A remarkable book about the shifting nature of capitalism…Beguiling." -- Financial World
"[Barber's] thesis has genuine bite." -- Denver Post

Consumed How Markets Corrupt Children

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: 20/03/2008
      ISBN13: 9780393330892, 978-0393330892
      ISBN10: 0393330893
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." —Jackson Lears

      Trade Review
      "Barber delivers a frightening analysis of the way consumerism is vitiating shoppers in the United States and around the world." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
      "This lifelong study of the effects of capitalism and privatization reveals a pervasiveness of branding and homogenization from which there is no turning back." -- Booklist
      "A remarkable book about the shifting nature of capitalism…Beguiling." -- Financial World
      "[Barber's] thesis has genuine bite." -- Denver Post

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