The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility -- The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing...

Frank Trentmann, Historiker am Londoner Birkbeck College, erzählt in Herrschaft der Dinge erstmals umfassend die faszinierende Geschichte des Konsums. Von der italienischen Renaissance bis hin zur globalisierten Wirtschaft der Gegenwart entwirft er eine weltumspannende Alltags- und...

This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...

In pursuit of status : the rising consumerism of China's middle class -- Mao's children are wearing fashion! -- Learning to consume Tibet -- Dolce & Banana, a Shanzhai creator's manual : production and consumption of fake in contemporary Chinese art practices -- Thriving medical consumerism in...

Consuming Germany in the Cold War : consumption and national identity in East and West Germany, 1949-1989, an introduction / David F. Crew -- "A world in miniature" : the Leipzig Trade Fairs in the 1950s and East German consumer citizenship / Katharine Pence -- On the seam between socialism and...