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Books & Ideas is slowing down for the summer and will be offering weekly selections of reviews and essays published over the last year. This week’s selection questions our global consumerism, looks back in its history and analyses its legal framework.

Hubert Bonin, “A Compendium on Consumption”
Mingling all kinds of historical approaches—economic, social, entrepreneurial and societal mentality—J.-C. Daumas dedicates a fresco to the immaterial perception of consumer goods.




Etienne Augris, “Automotive Society”
Cars are everywhere. Motorisation owes its success to a product that satisfies individual aspirations, combined with the consumption boom and the appetite for urban transport. But do cars put us on the road to emancipation or alienation?




Sylvain Maechler, “Regulating Globalisation”
The excesses of globalisation, including labour exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, are often seen as the result of a lack of rules. Tim Bartley shows that these rules exist and overlap—they are just failing because they ignore the context in which they operate.

by The editorial team, 20 July 2020

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The editorial team, « Beyond Consumerism?. A Summer Selection Part I », Books and Ideas , 20 July 2020. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : https://laviedesidees.fr/Beyond-Consumerism

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