Consumerism in America had its beginnings as early as the mid-eighteenth century if not earlier. “From the 1750s Chesapeake colonists were inundated with an unprecedented flow of nonessential consumer ...

Since Mr Trump’s election, that figure has surged by 1.7 percentage points—the joint-largest three-month rise since 1979, ...

More, Newer, Better After World War II, consumer spending no longer meant just satisfying an indulgent material desire. In fact, the American consumer was praised as a patriotic citizen in the ...

While business groups have long lamented actions taken by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump and his allies want ...

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https://doi.org/10.1086/528849 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/528849 Bakan, Joel. 2004. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power ...

UFC fighter Sean Strickland addressed America’s growing mental health crisis and rampant consumerism in a recent online exchange. When asked by a social media user about a “magical place ...