BOOKS CONSUMERISM

 

LIST OF WEBSITES:

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LIST OF BOOK LISTS:

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SHORT LIST

Boyle, Erin, Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More, Harry N. Abrams, 2016

 

Cohen, Lizabeth, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Vintage Books, 2003

Cordray, Richard, Watchdog : how protecting consumers can save our families, our economy, and our democracy, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2021

  

Couturier, Andy, The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan, North Atlantic Books, 2017

 

Gunders, Dana, Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook: A Guide to Eating Well and Saving Money By Wasting Less Food, Chronicle Books, 2015

 

Kasser, Tim, The High Price of Materialism, A Bradford Book, 2003

 

Kondo, Marie, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, Ten Speed Press, 2014

 

Leonard, Annie, The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better, Free Press; Reprint edition, 2011

 

Lutz, Catherine, Anne Lutz Fernandez, Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives, St. Martin's Press, 2010

 

Sasaki, Fumio, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism, W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

 

Schor, Juliet B., Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Cult, Scribner; Reprint edition, 2005

 

Schor, Juliet B., The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, And The New Consumer, Harper Perennial; 1st HarperPerennial Ed Pub. 1999 edition, 1999

 

Schor, Juliet, Douglas B. Holt, The Consumer Society Reader, The New Press, 2000

 

Shotton, Richard, The Choice Factory: 25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy, Harriman House, 2018

 

Smith, Jen, Jill Sirianni, Buy What You Love Without Going Broke: Transform Your Spending and Get More of What Money Can't Buy, Harvest, 2025

 

Veblen, Thorstein, Martha Banta, The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford World's Classics), Oxford University Press; Reissue edition, 2009

 

Veblen, Thorsten, Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin Great Ideas), Penguin Books, 2006

 

Yarrow, Kit, Decoding the New Consumer Mind: How and Why We Shop and Buy, Jossey-Bass, 2014