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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture

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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture

by Juliet B Schor

About this title: Over the last fifteen years children's spending power has mushroomed to an estimated USD30 billion in direct purchases and another USD600 billion of influence over parental purchases. Advertising and marketing has exploded alongside expenditures and now totals more than USD12 billion a year. Ads targeted at children are virtually everywhere - in schools, museums and on the internet - and strategies for capturing the child wallet have become ever more sophisticated. Marketers are intruding into a child's most private space, organizing stealthy peer-to-peer viral marketing efforts, and using ... read more

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By Laura, The United States

"This book woke me up to a lot of ways companies are trying to pretty much brainwash me and my children and the rest of us to buy."

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"I always succeed in finding books that make me feel outraged. This one is a dry read, but the information is scary and holds your attention."

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By Megrcross, Norwood, NJ

"a great nonfic if you are interested in socially, marketing and/or child development. based on very specific marketing and advertising examples, to prove general points about the topics, and in some cases i didn't really get the connection. however, pretty solid overall and equally as frightening as the cover picture."

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By Kate, The United States

"read this! concrete reasoning to scale back your consumption...we all just have too much and she lays out the consequences to our obsession with accruing. do it for the children..."

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