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In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines--philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social psychology--examine the causes, nature, and consequences of present-day consumption patterns in the United States and throughout the world.

Preface

xiii

(4)

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

1

(18)

David A. Crocker

Toby Linden

Part I: Consumption, Natural Resources, and the Environment

19

(112)

1 Consumption: Value Added, Physical Transformation, and Welfare

19

(9)

Herman E. Daly

2 Carrying Capacity and Ecological Economics

28

(25)

Mark Sagoff

3 Reply to Mark Sagoff's "Carrying Capacity and Ecological Economics"

53

(10)

Herman E. Daly

4 Limits to Consumption and Economic Growth: The Middle Ground

63

(6)

Allen L. Hammond

5 Food, Feed, and Land

69

(26)

Paul E. Waggoner

6 The Case Against the Consumption of Grain-Fed Meat

95

(18)

Robert Goodland

7 The Political Economy of Consumption

113

(18)

David Luban

Part II: Explaining Consumption

131

(67)

8 A New Economic Critique of Consumer Society

131

(8)

Juliet B. Schor

9 Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming

139

(16)

Colin Campbell

10 Consuming Because Others Consume

155

(21)

Judith Lichtenberg

11 Consumer Expenditures and the Growth of Need-Required Income

176

(22)

Jerome M. Segal

Part III: Assessing Consumption

198

(89)

12 Alternatives to the Consumer Society

198

(20)

Paul L. Wachtel

13 The Road Not Taken: Friendship, Consumerism, and Happiness

218

(31)

Robert E. Lane

14 Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture

249

(20)

Michael Schudson

15 Consumption As Culture: A Desert Example

269

(18)

Alan Strudler

Eleonora Curlo

Part IV: Consumption and the Good Life: The Capabilities Approach

287

(104)

16 The Living Standard

287

(25)

Amartya Sen

17 The Good As Discipline, the Good As Freedom

312

(30)

Martha C. Nussbaum

18 Living at a High Economic Standard: A Functionings Analysis

342

(24)

Jerome M. Segal

19 Consumption, Well-Being, and Capability

366

(25)

David A. Crocker

Part V: Consumption and the Good Life: Religious and Theological Perspectives

391

(46)

20 "The Earth Is the Lord's and the Fullness Thereof": Jewish Perspectives on Consumption

391

(12)

Eliezer Diamond

21 The Ethics of Consumption: A Roman Catholic View

403

(13)

Charles K. Wilber

22 On the Subversive Virtue: Frugality

416

(21)

James A. Nash

Part VI: Consumption and International Justice

437

(124)

23 Natural Resource Consumption: North and South

437

(39)

Allen L. Hammond

24 Consumption and Population

476

(25)

Nathan Keyfitz

25 A Global Resources Dividend

501

(36)

Thomas W. Pogge

26 Consumption, Appropriation, and Stewardship

537

(15)

David Wasserman

27 Consumption As a Topic for the North-South Dialogue

552

(9)

Luis A. Camacho

Index of Names

561

(4)

Index of Subjects

565

(16)

About the Contributors

581

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