BOOKS CONSUMERISM

 

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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

 

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

 

OTHERS

Baradaran, Mehrsa, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy, Harvard University Press, 2015

Brobeck, Stephen and Robert N. Mayer, Watchdogs and Whistleblowers: A Reference Guide to Consumer Activism, Greenwood, 2015

Calder, Lendol, Financing the American Dream, Princeton University Press, 2001

Cross, Gary, An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America, Columbia University Press, 2002

de Graaf, John, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor, Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us - and How to Fight Back, Berrett-Koehler Publishers; Third Edition, New edition, 2014

Edberg, Pia, The Cozy Life: Rediscover the Joy of the Simple Things Through the Danish Concept of Hygge, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Frankel, Lois P., Nice Girls Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money (A NICE GIRLS Book), Warner Business Books; Reprint edition, 2005

 

Glickman, Lawrence B., Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America, University of Chicago Press; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Hamilton, Clive, Richard Denniss, Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough, Allen & Unwin, 2006

 

Harzog, Beverly, Liz Weston, Confessions of a Credit Junkie: Everything You Need to Know to Avoid the Mistakes I Made, Career Press, 2013

 

Hodgkinson, Tom, How To Be Free, Penguin UK, 2007

 

Hyman, Louis, Borrow: The American Way of Debt, Vintage; Original edition, 2012

 

Kasser, Tim, Allen D. Kanner, Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World, American Psychological Association (APA), 2003

 

Katz, Alyssa, Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us, Bloomsbury USA, 2010

 

Kelly, Mary C., Money Smart: How not to buy cat food when you don't have a cat, Kaimana Publishing, 2013

 

Lasn, Kalle, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must, William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2000

 

Lindstrom, Martin, Brand Sense: Sensory Secrets Behind the Stuff We Buy, Free Press; Revised, Updated ed. Edition, 2010

 

Lindstrom, Martin, Paco Underhill, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, Currency; Reprint edition, 2010

 

McFague, Sallie, Blessed are the Consumers, Augsburg Fortress; 2.3.2013 edition, 2013

 

Pugh, Allison, Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, University of California Press, 2009

 

Schor, Juliet, After the Gig,University of California Press, 2021

 

Schor, Juliet, Consumerism and Its Discontents, Oxford Univ Pr (Txt), 2015

 

Stearns, Peter, Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire (Themes in World History), Routledge; 2 edition, 2006

 

Tosetti, Melissa, Kevin Gibbons, Living The Savvy Life: The Savvy Woman's Guide to Smart Spending and Rich Living, Morgan James Publishing, 2011

 

Trentmann, Frank, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford Handbooks), Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Trentmann, Frank, Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Underhill, Paco, Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond, Simon & Schuster; Updated, Revised ed. Edition, 2008

 

Vyse, Stuart, Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money, Oxford University Press, 2008

 

Wann, David, Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle, St. Martin's Griffin, 2007

 

Whitehead M.B.A. J.D., Bert, Weil M.D., Andrew, Why Smart People Do Stupid Things with Money: Overcoming Financial Dysfunction, Printed in US by Edward Bros Malloy; Fourth edition, 2013

 

Wu, Tim, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, Vintage; Illustrated edition, 2017