Concept
Consumerism
Overview
social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Consumerism
Related ideas
- Austrian school of economics
- Francis Fukuyama
- Friedrich Hayek
- Galicia (Spain)
- Great Britain
- Indonesia
- Industrial Revolution
- Josiah Wedgwood
- Karl Marx
- Ecological economics
- Great Depression
- Simple living
- Oswald Spengler
- Sierra Club
- Spain
- Singapore
- Slavery
- Spirituality
- Scientific American
- PBS
- University of California, Berkeley
- Encyclical
- New Scientist
- Cultural hegemony
Place in the tradition
Part of Transhumanism.