The Theory of the Accommodation Based Consumerist Economic System
The Theory of the Accommodation Based Consumerist Economic System

Author: Michael Salaniuk

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1999475801

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Accommodation Based Consumerism is a solution to the problem of human poverty. It is a new economic system that stands as a third alternative to free-market capitalism and socialist communism. In this system there is no unemployment or homelessness. There is only one tax. Everyone is entitled to goods and services of the highest quality. The consumerist framework provides remedies to negative externalities as well as the difficulties surrounding inflation. Accommodation Based Consumerism is a very general and elaborate theory of the functioning of the economic aspect of human experience. In these pages are described specifically how it works and how this system is to be applied to actual scenarios.

The Consumer Society
The Consumer Society

Author: Jean Baudrillard

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2016-12-13

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1473994543

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jean Baudrillard′s classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard′s most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard′s extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.

Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism
Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism

Author: Ribeiro de Almeida, Cláudia

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-02-28

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1799822265

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In recent years, the increasing number of tourists traveling to specific urban and resort destinations has caused challenges for the effective management of tourism in these areas, with a resulting negative impact on towns, cities, and host communities. Such issues have included placing undue pressure on infrastructure; destruction of the physical, economic, and socio-cultural environment; and affecting the quality of residents’ daily lives by impacting their mobility and, in some cases, the price and rent of resident accommodation, goods, and services. To achieve a certain level of balance between the interests of local residents and visitors, new regulatory measures and legislation in high tourism areas must be discussed. TheHandbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism is a collection of innovative research on best practices and legislation solutions for the management of tourism destinations suffering from overtourism, tourismophobia, or antitourism movement issues. While highlighting topics including overcrowding, social displacement, and tourism management, this book is ideally designed for local government officials, policymakers, lawmakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, industry professionals, travel agencies, hotels, academicians, and students seeking current innovative empirical research on destination-management practices and application techniques.

Financial Literacy Education
Financial Literacy Education

Author: Chris Arthur

Publisher: Brill / Sense

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9789460919176

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Consumer financial literacy education often appears as a helpful, commonsense solution to neoliberalism and the individualization of responsibility for economic risk. However, in Financial Literacy Education: Neoliberalism, the Consumer and the Citizenthis particular literacy is argued to be both ineffective and unjust. Socially created poverty, unemployment and economic insecurity require more than individual consumer solutions; they require collective responses by engaged, critical citizens. Utilizing concepts from Marx, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard this book challenges those who claim that 'there is no alternative' to neoliberal insecurity and reduce education to a consumerist training of entrepreneurial consumer-citizens who can continually invest in themselves and the market. Through an analysis of consumer financial literacy education's present and historical supports, as well as its likely effects, this book argues that the choice before us is not financial illiteracy or financial literacy. Rather, the choice is between subjugation to the requirements of perpetual competition or overcoming alienation, insecurity and exploitation, aims the critical financial literacy education outlined at the end of this book supports. This book will appeal to those interested in understanding the conditions of our freedom in an increasingly financialized world--critical educators, philosophers and sociologists of education and financial literacy researchers.

The Production of Consumer Society
The Production of Consumer Society

Author: Ernst Mohr

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 3839457033

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint in consumption styles symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an overall stylistic system of society and analyses their encounters. Rigorously derived, the approach casts fresh light on the cultural and social evolution as well as the business models of the consumer industry. It provides a coherent interdisciplinary access to the aesthetic turn of society that has so far been treated with contradictory paradigms.

Transformational Tourism
Transformational Tourism

Author: Yvette Reisinger

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2015-08-14

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1780643926

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism.

New Thinking in Macroeconomics
New Thinking in Macroeconomics

Author: Jonathan M. Harris

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Presenting new and innovative perspectives on macroeconomics at the national and international level, the editors bring together contributions on a wide range of topics including: social, institutional and environmental perspectives; current issues of globalization; transitional economies; inequity; unemployment; national and international debt; and the relationship of macroeconomic policies to the environment. The contributors draw on expertise in a variety of areas to provide insight into debates on macroeconomic policy in the US and Europe, as well as in developing and transitional economies. instability and crisis in national and global systems; the evolution of macroeconomic institutions to stabilize and guide economic growth; the paradoxes of globalization, the dangers of unrestricted financial flows and the impacts of globalization on national institutional coherence; macro and institutional strategies for the transitional economies of Russia and Eastern Europe; distributional and equity issues, including employment, housing and homelessness; the impact of macroeconomic policy and debt on the environment; and long-term growth and its relationship to well-being and environmental sustainability.

Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making
Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making

Author: Michael W. Kattan

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009-08-18

Total Pages: 1281

ISBN-13: 1412953723

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts sorting out findings on medical decision making and their applications.

Habermas
Habermas

Author: Pauline Johnson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-18

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134209274

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

If we are to believe what many sociologists are telling us, the public sphere is in a near terminal state. Our ability to build solidarities with strangers and to agree on the general significance of needs and problems seems to be collapsing. These cultural potentials appear endangered by a newly aggressive attempt to universalize and extend the norms of the market. For four decades Habermas has been trying to bring the claims of a modern public sphere before us. His vast oeuvre has investigated its historical, sociological and theoretical preconditions, has explored its relevance and meaning as well as diagnosing its on-going crises. In the contemporary climate, a systematic look at Habermas’ lifelong project of rescuing the modern public sphere seems an urgent task. This study reconstructs major developments in Habermas’ thinking about the public sphere, and is a contribution to the current vigorous debate over its plight. It marshals the significance of Habermas’ lifetime of work on this topic to illuminate what is at stake in a contemporary interest in rescuing an embattled modern public sphere. Habermas’ project of rescuing the neglected potentials of Enlightenment legacies has been deeply controversial. For many, it is too lacking in radical commitments to warrant its claim to a contemporary place within a critical theory tradition. Against this developing consensus, Pauline Johnson describes Habermas’ project as one that is still informed by utopian energies, even though his own construction of emancipatory hopes itself proves to be too narrow and one-sided.