consumption (economics)

What happens to your old phone or computer when you need an upgrade? What rights does the worker who built your phone have? This thought-provoking title helps readers discover the answers to these questions and many more.

Find out about the links between supply, demand, working conditions, and the resources that are needed to build just one computer, as well as the environmental impacts from technology purchases.

"Provides case-studies and first-hand accounts that encourage readers to be informed and ethical shoppers"--Back cover.

Presents ten secrets on how the reader can spend their money wisely.

Uses the metaphor of a disease to explore how society has been affected by Americans' obsessive quest for material gain.

Discusses the influence of advertising and corporate messages on people's minds, covering the pervasive and transformative impact of consumer popular culture on society.

Explores the effects of capitalism on American culture and how consumer capitalism overproduces goods, targets children, and encourages adults to abandon self-restraint.

Introduces the responsibility of spending money wisely and provides a topic-related problem to reinforce math skills.

Contains essays in which various authors respond to the author's contention that Americans shop too much and her explanation of why that is true.