Astra Taylor, The New Press. August 13, 2009. Ethicist Peter Singer argues that it's pretty black and white when it comes to making choices about where you spend your money.
Ellen Rupel Shell, The Penguin Press. August 8, 2009. Are America's 55 million outlet shoppers scoring great deals on expensive brandname products, or getting less than they're bargaining for?
Benjamin R. Barber, The Nation. January 28, 2009. Capitalism is on its knees and now we have a chance to create higher ideals beyond career climbing and mindless consumerism.
Matt Taibbi, New York Press. January 22, 2009. Reading Thomas Friedman is like listening to the man talking to himself. His latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded, is no different.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. November 29, 2008. A worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Wal-Mart.
Orion Kriegman, Richard Rosen, AlterNet. November 24, 2008. The spiraling economy has forced the American consumer to halt and take stock. And that's a good thing.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. November 21, 2008. Wherever we go, our "stuff" goes with us -- in such large quantities that removing it could prove more daunting than invading in the first place.
Nina Berman, Brenda Ann Kenneally, AlterNet. November 4, 2008. Brenda Ann Kenneally captures the female working poor and culture of incarceration in Troy, N.Y., where the presidential race has little resonance.
Emily Wilson, AlterNet. September 18, 2008. Rob Walker, author of a new book on consumer culture, explains how consumers embrace brands as part of their identities -- often without knowing it.
Michael Dudley, City States. July 1, 2008. Stores are overfilling with WALL-E merchandise that will soon clog our landfills. Yet this new Disney movie bills itself as pro-environment.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. May 24, 2008. Professor M. Gigi Durham discusses the corporate media's sexual objectification of girls and how to help young women fight regressive media messages.
Stan Cox, AlterNet. April 28, 2008. As long as an investing class makes all major environmental decisions, no new sources of energy will replace even one barrel or ton of fossil fuel.
Charles Shaw, AlterNet. April 11, 2008. The pattern of out-of-control consumption in the U.S. is not too different from the well-known behavioral patterns of substance abusers.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. March 12, 2008. We have been the world's designated shoppers, and, if we fall down on the job, we take the global economy with us.
John Miller, Dollars and Sense. February 8, 2008. The economic recovery underway since late 2001 is probably over. Too bad many Americans never got to experience it.
