Negative socio-psychological effects of consumerism
For diseases correlating with affluence, see Diseases of affluence.
For other uses, see Affluenza (disambiguation).
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Notable works
Walden
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Brave New World
The Affluent Society
One-Dimensional Man
The Society of the Spectacle (book, film)
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures [fr]
Steal This Book
Small Is Beautiful
To Have or to Be?
Future Primitive and Other Essays
Fight Club (novel, film)
Escape from Affluenza
No Logo
Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
The Cultural Creatives
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
Evasion
The Corporation
Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers
So, What's Your Price?
What Would Jesus Buy?
Organizations and groups
Adbusters
Crass
CrimethInc.
Deep Green Resistance
Democracy Now!
Earth Liberation Front
Fifth Estate
Freecycle
Green Anarchy
Institute for Social Ecology
Monthly Review
Rage Against the Machine
Reverend Billy
The Venus Project
The Yes Men
350.org
People
Mauro Bonaiuti
Noam Chomsky
Erich Fromm
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Edward Goldsmith
Paul Goodman
André Gorz
Ivan Illich
Serge Latouche
Donella Meadows
Pierre Rabhi
John Ruskin
E. F. Schumacher
Bernard Stiegler
Henry David Thoreau
Related social movements
Alter-globalization
Amateurism
Anarcho-communism
Anarcho-primitivism
Anarcho-punk
Anti-capitalism
Anti-corporate activism
Anti-globalization movement
Communism
Diggers (theater)
Ecofeminism
Eco-socialism
Environmentalism
Feminism
Food Not Bombs
Fossil fuel phase-out
Green anarchism
Green left
Green politics
Hippie
Libertarian socialism
Neo-Luddism
New Left
Occupy Wall Street
Postmodernism
Punk
Situationists
Slow movement
Social anarchism
Social ecology
See also
Works about consumerism
Advanced capitalism
Advertising
Barter
Capitalism
Consumer behaviour
Consumption (economics)
Consumption (sociology)
Cooperative
Counterculture
Cultural hegemony
Ecological economics
Economic materialism
Economic problems
Frugality
Green economy
Gross National Happiness
Heterodox economics
HosPex
Influence of mass media
Informal sector
Intentional community
Left-wing politics
McDonaldization
Mutual aid
Natural resource economics
Non-monetary economy
Permaculture
Post-materialism
Productivism
Shopping
Social movements
Subsistence economy
Sustainability
Sweatshops
Veblen good
Workaholic
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Affluenza is a pseudoscientific psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy people. It is a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, and is used most commonly by critics of consumerism. It is not a medically recognized disease.[1]
^Ferguson, Christopher J. (14 December 2013). "Psychologist: "Affluenza" is Junk Science". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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happen in a real case, giving the episode a "C-" for legal accuracy. Affluenza defense – Negative socio-psychological effects of consumerism Dead cat...
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privilege, a condition an expert witness termed "affluenza." Boyd herself specifically claimed the "affluenza" argument did not influence her judgment but...
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of a competent lawyer. But I want a lawyer who's going to win for me." Affluenza Chewbacca defense Gay panic defense The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre...
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