1. Abundance, scarcity and sufficiency -- 2. The institution of marketing -- 3. Socio-cultural consumption -- 4. Subjective consumption -- 5. Cognitive consumption -- 6. The role of markets -- 7. Implications.

Contents: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Monetary regimes, then and now / Charles Goodhart -- 2. Keynes applied / Geoff Tily -- 3. Rethinking monetary restraint / Roy Rotheim -- 4. The evolutionary approach to banking and the credit-hungry consumer: a view of the failure of African Bank...

The book begins with a penetrating analysis of the main features of today's capitalism and in particular the conflict between shareholders and managers. It moves on to focus on the consequences of globalization in the decision-making processes of large corporations and represents an important...