Do you know any good books on consumerism?

If you want something more in the vein of popular culture, or at least more entertainment than textbook, I love Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. read more

I would agree that consumerism has always been an element of capitalism for time eternal, but the almost inescapable barrage of advertisements we are faced with today in US culture: on TV, in magazines, on Internet websites, at movie theaters, on billboards, the radio, etc make the tangible influence of marketers and therefore consumerism much more powerful than, say, they were in the 1930s. read more