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Author Leiss, William, 1939- author.

Title The limits to satisfaction : an essay on the problem of needs and commodities / William Leiss
Published Kingston [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 163 pages)
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: EXAMINATION -- The individual -- Society -- Non-human nature -- PART TWO: DIAGNOSIS -- Needs -- Commodities -- The double ambiguity -- PART THREE: PROGNOSIS -- Toward an alternative setting for human needs -- The conserver society -- The needs of non-human nature -- Other satisfactions? -- Notes -- Works cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Summary Consumerism and capitalist and socialist industry have reached the point where state power is legitimatized by its ability to increase the number of commodities. A unique culture has been created in which marketing is the main social bond. Values no longer shape and condition needs, wants, desires, or preferences. Leiss draws on economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to show the vagueness of our thought on the relation between nature and culture, desire and reason, needs and commodities. This book raises serious, vital questions for all those concerned about the future of our present society
Notes Originally published: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index
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Subject Raw materials.
Supply and demand.
Commodity control.
raw material.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Consumer Behavior.
Commodity control
Raw materials
Supply and demand
Bedürfnisbefriedigung
Rohstoffverbrauch
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773561922
0773561927