Maurie J Cohen

The Future of Consumer Society

Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how consumer society is changing due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, resource scarcity, and steady jobs being replaced by freelancing. It examines how people are striving to find new ways to ensure livelihoods and the role that the role that worker-consumer cooperatives could play.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 135mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780198768555
• ISBN-10: 0198768559
• Artikelnr.: 47870194

Autorenporträt

Maurie J. Cohen is Professor of Sustainability Studies and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. He is Editor of Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy (SSPP) and co-founder and Executive Board Member of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI). His books include Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices (with Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip Vergragt, Edward Elgar, 2013) and Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences (with Joseph Murphy, Pergamon, 2001). He holds a PhD in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Fathoming Consumer Society
3: The (Mostly) Empty Promise of the Sharing Economy
4: The Mass Market Maker Movement
5: Localization Fallacies
6: Consumption in the Era of Digital Automation
7: Conclusion