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1. Alleviating Human Misery: The Role of Economic Reasoning
2. Economic Systems, Resource Allocation, and Social Well-Being: (Tentative)
3. Government Control of Prices in Mixed Systems: What Are the Actual Outcomes
4. Pollution Problems: Must We Foul Our Own Nests?
5. Economics of Crime and Its Prevention: How Much Is Too Much?
6. The Economics of Education: Crisis and Reform
7. Poverty Problems and Discrimination: Why Are So Many Still So Poor?
8. The Economics of Big Business: Who Does What to Whom?
9. The Economics of Professional Sports: What Is the Real Score?
10. Protectionism Versus Free Trade: Can We Restrict Ourselves into Prosperity?
11. Unemployment Issues: Why Do We Waste Our Labor Resources?
12. Inflation: How to Gain and Lose at the Same Time
13. Economic Growth: Are We Living in a "New Economy"?
14. Government Spending, Taxing, and the National Debt: Who Wins and Who Loses?
15. Social Security and Medicare: How Secure Is Our Safety Net for the Elderly?

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Intro: Enter the Lollipop 1

1 Punk Capitalism From D.I.Y. to Downloading Sneakers 9
2 The Tao of Pirates Sea Forts, Patent Trolls, and Why We Need Piracy 33
3 We Invented the Remix Cut-'n'-Paste Culture Creates Some New Common Ground 68
4 The Art of War Street Art, Branding, and the Battle for Public Space 103
5 Boundaries Disco Nuns, the Death of the Record Industry, and Our Open-Source Future 134
6 Real Talk How Hip-Hop Makes Billions and Could Bring About World Peace 172
7 Ethernomics Pillow Fights, Happy Slaps, and Other Memes That Leave a Mark 202

Outro: The Pirate's Dilemma: Changing the Game Theory 231
Acknowledgments 241
Notes 245

Index 269

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Now available in a significantly updated second edition featuring two new chapters, Social Communication in Advertising remains the most comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society. It traces advertising's influence within three key social domains: the new commodities industry; popular culture; and the mass media which manages the constellation of images that unifies all three.

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A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism-encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood-we are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption.

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Acknowledgments

The Birth of Consumers
Capitalism Triumphant and the Infantilist Ethos
From Protestantism to Puerility
The Eclipse of Citizens
Infantilizing Consumers: The Coming of Kidults
Privatizing Citizens: The Making of Civic Schizophrenia
Branding Identities: The Loss of Meaning
Totalizing Society: The End of Diversity
The Fate of Citizens
Resisting Consumerism: Can Capitalism Cure Itself?
Overcoming Civic Schizophrenia: Restoring Citizenship in a World of Interdependence

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Michael Weiss expands on the geodemographics of The Clustering of America with this fascinating look at the sixty-two new lifestyle "clusters" that define who we are by what we buy. Clustering has become a widely accepted business concept throughout the world, revealing a global village of people who have more in common with foreigners of the same cluster than they do with their fellow countrypeople.