1st Edition

The Consumer Society

Edited By I. R. C. Hirst, W. Duncan Reekie Copyright 1977
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in... Read more
Chapter 1 , W.Vamplew; Chapter 2 Consumption and pollution, MeghnadDesai; Chapter 3 Private and public consumption, AlanThompson; Chapter 4 Consumer choice and collective choice, I.R.C.Hirst; Chapter 5 The market in advertising, W. DuncanReekie; Chapter 6 ‘Zen’ affluence in a subsistence economy of Bougainville, Solomon Islands, J.Rutherford; Chapter 7 The ideology of private consumption, MarkAbrams; Chapter 8 Consumerism and the law, W.A.Wilson; Chapter 9 The market in and consumption of housing, F.G.PENNANCE; Chapter 10 Consumption, health, and old age, Gillian R.StanleyIndex;

Biography

Hirst, I. R. C.; Reekie, W. Duncan