The Future of Consumer Society: Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy

by Maurie J. Cohen

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity. At the same time, steady jobs that compensate employees on a salaried or hourly basis are being replaced by freelancing and contingent work. The rise of the so-called sharing economy, the growth of do-it-yourself production, and the spreading popularity of economic localization are evidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198768559
• ISBN13: 9780198768555
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.6"