Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Publication Title
Radical Philosophy
First Page
179
Last Page
189
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.
Recommended Citation
van der Linden, Harry, "Explaining, Assessing, and Changing High Consumption" Radical Philosophy / (2003): 179-189.
Available at https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/21