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We don’t need to buy stuff? Peak Consumerism

We don’t need to buy stuff? Peak Consumerism

By Kim on July 21, 2011

Post-GFC, there are now arguments in places like The Economist and the New York Times that we’ve passed Peak Consumerism.

Posted in Consumerism, Creativity, Featured, Life, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Consumerism, consumption, economic growth, GFC, household economies, production, slow, Sociology, two speed economy, value | 55 Responses

Rudd government to introduce an ETS based on consumption not production?

By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2010

Writing in today’s Fin, Laura Tingle, who’s normally very well informed, reports on work being done in the Department of Climate Change on a new version of the ETS, this time based on consumption not production. The idea is that [...]

Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Markets, NSW Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, Bruce Hawker, carbon price, carbon tax, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, consumption, consumption based ets, Copenhagen, cprs, Department of Climate Change, direct action, ets, Federal Election 2010, Garnaut, graham richardson, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, Laura Tingle, Mark Arbib, market based mechanisms, NSW Labor, NSW Right, Penny Wong, Polls, production, rent seeking, The Greens, Tony Abbott | 144 Responses

"Great new tax on everything"

By Mark Bahnisch on December 30, 2009

The government has released modelling showing the effects of the CPRS on household incomes, demonstrating that many low income earners will, on average, be better off financially. Predictably, this disclosure has added fuel to the fire of complaints from the [...]

Posted in Climate change, Economics, Elections, Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics, Polls | Tagged Andrew Norton, Climate change, compensation, consumption, cprs, Economics, Energy, ets, GST, households, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, modelling, polling, redistribution, tax, Tony Abbott | 54 Responses

The Affluenza myth

By Mark Bahnisch on June 29, 2009

Don Arthur wrote an excellent post at Troppo last week, which is an object lesson in how ideological positions collapse when confronted with careful empirical work: Australia is in the midst of a flat-screen TV crisis, says Clive Hamilton. Driven [...]

Posted in Consumerism, Culture, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Blogging, Clive Hamilton, consumption, Don Arthur, housing, Politics, social policy, Sociology | 122 Responses

Weightless capitalism

By Mark Bahnisch on June 17, 2009

For quite some time, it’s been becoming easier to conceive of the commodity as something immaterial – a social relation – and indeed of economic value as a social construct. Indicative of the accentuation of such trends – and this [...]

Posted in Blogging, Consumerism, Culture, Ethics, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Capitalism, consumption, cultural sociology, Economics, facebook, global financial crisis, great recession, knowledge economy, liquid lives, Nathan Jurgenson, political economy, production, prosumer, social media, Sociology, value, Zygmunt Bauman | 17 Responses

Gerry Harvey as leading indicator?

By Mark Bahnisch on January 27, 2009

Anyone who’s worked in a large public sector organisation will know how “efficiency dividends” work. Or don’t work. Or work in unintended ways – by destroying the capacity to do what your actual main purpose is. There’s a bit of [...]

Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Markets | Tagged ABS, ALP, consumer spending, consumption, data, deflation, economic policy, Economics, economists, fiscal spending, Gerry Harvey, growth, Harvey Norman, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, managerialism, Peter Costello, Peter Martin, recession, Rudd govermnent, stimulus, Treasury | 88 Responses

Spend, spend, spend! It's your patriotic duty… or something

By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008

The stock market has lost 51% of its value since its peak, a decline we’re told now exceeds the destruction of value seen in 1987. On the ABC News tonight, Alan Kohler grimly pointed to an index (tradeable, I think, [...]

Posted in Disasters, Economics, Markets, Sociology, USA | Tagged Alan Kohler, ALP, ASX, bear market, black monday, consumers, consumption, credit card, Crikey, debt, deflation, economic policy, equities, Glenn Stevens, global financial crisis, inflation, Kevin Rudd, Keynes, recession, reserve bank, Rudd government, stock market, unemployment, wages, Wayne Swan, working hours | 90 Responses

Of gallstones and equality

By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2008

No doubt I’m not the first to comment on the fact that Therese Rein had her gallbladder surgery at the Mater Private Hospital. I’m certainly not casting stones, as I had my gallbladder removed at St Andrew’s Hospital in 2004. [...]

Posted in Consumerism, Disasters, Health, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged consumption, politics&govt, Sociology | Leave a response

Good riddance to bad rubbish

By Paul Norton on January 10, 2008

It’s reported today that China will ban the free distribution of plastic shopping bags at shops and supermarkets as of 1 June this year, and that the Australian government is considering phasing out plastic bags either through imposing a levy [...]

Posted in Consumerism, Environment, Markets, Policy | Tagged consumption, politics&govt, Sociology | Leave a response

Ready to download?

By Anna Winter on October 8, 2007

Mel at Footpath Zeitgeist* has a post up about the ethics of fashion: There has been more and more mainstream media coverage lately about issues of ethics in fashion, which is giving consumers this kind of knowledge. Sue Thomas’s opinion [...]

Posted in Consumerism, Environment, Fashion, The Web | Tagged consumption, fashions&style, Sociology | 3 Responses

Doing business online

By suz on September 28, 2007

As the election approaches, there’s bound to be another round of discussion about politics and politicians online – the role of You Tube, Facebook, newspaper blogs, online polls, political bloggers, etc. But as I was squashing a cockroach in my [...]

Posted in Consumerism, The Web | Tagged consumption, Sociology | 31 Responses

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