The Consumer Society

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

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136419485
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

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Index

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advertising

conceptual approach to equilibrium in markets for, 66–9

consumer ideology and, 120–1, 125–6

in firms' published accounts, 88

improving efficiency of markets in: by legislation, 83–5; by Monopolies Commission, 78–9; by providing more information for consumers, 85–8; by self-discipline of advertising industry, 81–2

influences on demand for, 69–72, and on supply of, 72–6

quantity of: intensity, content, and style, 64–5, 67–8

what is excess of? 76–8

Advertising Practice, Code of, 81

Advertising Standards Authority, 81

complaints to, 82

affluence

defined as equality between wants and satisfaction, 91

‘Zen’ state of, with low levels of both wants and satisfaction, 92, 114

agriculture

ecological impact of, 32

traditional of Aita people, 93

air, pollution of

by consumption of petroleum and coal, 32

estimate of reduction in, by replacement of private by public transport, 32

and price of houses (St Louis, Mo.), 30

Aita people, of Bougainville, Solomon Islands, xiii, 91, 92–3

agriculture of, 93–4, 97; phase of development of (1954–67), 100–4; social effects of cash cropping in, 104–5

Aita people cont.

consumption by: patterns of, 110–14; social and political background of, 95–7

earnings of, from handicrafts, 101, 106–7, 108, 109

methods of studying, 114–15

mining phase among (1967–70), 108–10

pacification phase among (1946–53), 97–100

population of, 93, 99, 101, 106–7, 115

taxation of, 107, 111

wage labour among, 98, 99–100, 101, 105–6, 108–9

amenity groups, constructive opposition to development projects by, xiii, 46

amenity rights, proposals for legal recognition of, xii–xiii, 46

birth rate, Britain (1930s), 19

building industry: labour intensiveness of, and effect of increased housing supply (1930s), 15–16

building societies, 131

funds flow into (1930s), 15

and house prices, 162–3

Canada: calculation of land, air, and water pollution generated by economic activity in, 31–2

capital/output ratio, in consumer-durable industries, 15

capitalism

misallocation of human and material resources under, 48

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Anthropology
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Editors' Preface
• Years of paradox: consumption in the 1930s
• Consumption and pollution
• Private and p'ublic consumption
• Consumer choice and collective choice
• The market in advertising
• ‘Zen’ affluence in a subsistence economy of Bougainville, Solomon Islands
• The ideology of private consumption
• Consumerism and the law
• The market in and consumption of housing
• Consumption, health, and old age
• Index