This revealing book provides an incisive treatment of consumption on a global scale from a cultural, philosophical and business perspective. It is an original a
Consumption is widely regarded as one of the most important phenomena in contemporary society, but, till now, there has been very little analysis of how consump
Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an e
The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the ‘sole purpose of production is consumption’, as Adam Smith has cla
Describes the "conflict minerals" mined in the Congo amidst armed conflict and human rights abuses including gold, diamonds, coltan, tin, and tungsten used in c