“In the last forty or fifty years it has begun to face a crisis. Having satisfied so successfully so many of our needs it found itself in a position where it no longer had goods to sell people that they wanted. And that creates the modern crisis of capitalism where instead of producing goods to meet real needs it manufactures needs, so we can sell all the unnecessary goods.”
Benjamin Barber, political theorist and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics)
- The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism
- Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism
- The Conduct of Life (Harvest Book, Nb 34)
- The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
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by Bob Garfield (Isbn-13: 9780984065103)
What happens when the old world order collapses and the Brave New World is unprepared to replace it as an ad medium, as a news source, as a political soapbox, a channel for new episodes of Lost? Welcome to The Chaos Scenario. It's here, and Bob Garfield saw it coming. In his roles as Advertising Age editor-at-large and as co-host of NPR's On the Media, Bob Garfield long ago connected dots that many in media and marketing refused even to acknowledge. In this fascinating, terrifying, instructive and...
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