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Shopping Begets Shopping

Put down the credit card, you unstoppable spending machine. Groundbreaking research shows that shopping leads to more shopping; not, as some predicted, happiness. Once you start buying, you build up what researchers call "shopping momentum," and then you can't stop. More »

9:45 AM on Sun Jan 20 2008
By Carey
2,431 views, 13 comments

step away from the credit card

Is Consumerism Killing Democracy?

Political scientist Benjamin Barber thinks mindless spending is killing America. Barber went on Bill Moyers Journal to promote his new book Consumed, and to lambast us for being infantilized drones who drool over whatever big business shoves into our greedy little mitts. More »

12:39 PM on Wed Dec 26 2007
By Carey
2,455 views, 21 comments