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Consumer culture and cultural criticism

Holds essays and criticism on American and Western culture, from Orwell, Didion and Tom Wolfe to Lasch, plus reporting on brands, fast food, luxury, sport, music and the industries that sell to consumers.

111 books on Consumer culture and cultural criticism, 3 of them tier 1, recommended by 48 people including Mohnish Pabrai and Patrick Collison.

111 books · 52 experts

Start here

  1. Fast Food NationEric Schlosser, 2001
  2. Addiction by DesignNatasha Dow Schüll, 2012
  3. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted AmericaBeth Macy, 2018
  4. The Big ChangeFrederick Lewis Allen, 1952
  5. No LogoNaomi Klein, 1999

The best books on Consumer culture and cultural criticism 111

Eric Schlosser · 2001
The industry critique that made McDonald's its central case.
Natasha Dow Schüll · 2012
Slot machine design as engineered time-on-device.
Frederick Lewis Allen · 1952
How American life and incomes changed between 1900 and 1950
Naomi Klein · 1999
The anti-sweatshop campaign that reshaped Nike's supply chain.
Charles Fishman · 2006
How the buying power reshapes suppliers, prices and wages.
Dana Thomas · 2007
The best-known account of LVMH-led mass luxury and outsourcing.
Allan M. Brandt · 2007
The regulatory and litigation environment that set what the tobacco assets were worth.
Sarah Thornton · 2008
Ethnography of auctions, fairs and studios.
Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski · 2009
Why football clubs are poor businesses but resilient assets.
Michael Moss · 2013
Industry-wide, with Nestlé among the main companies examined.
Vicki Howard · 2015
The rise and fall of the American department store, Sears throughout.
Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg · 2018
How the Premier League turned clubs into globally traded media assets.
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt · 2018
Applies antifragility to universities; safety culture as manufactured fragility
Alan B. Krueger · 2019
An economist on superstar effects and the economics of the music industry.
Stephen Butterfield · 1985
A former distributor on the ideology that sustains recruitment.
George Ritzer · 1993
The standardisation model that made the chain scalable.
Robert L. FitzPatrick, Joyce K. Reynolds · 1996
The first sustained critical analysis of MLM compensation arithmetic.
Robert H. Frank · 1999
The economics of positional goods and status competition.
Teri Agins · 1999
How fashion became a branded consumer-goods business.
Nancy Martha West · 2000
How Kodak's advertising taught Americans what to photograph.
Anthony Bianco · 2006
Business-press account of supplier and wage pressure.
Ellen Ruppel Shell · 2009
The externalities of the discount model.
Robert N. Proctor · 2011
Built from the industry's own litigation document archive.
Chris Taylor · 2014
Merchandising rights outgrowing the films that created them.
Peter Hellman · 2017
The Rudy Kurniawan counterfeiting case.
T3 Boom
Michael Shnayerson · 2019
The rise of the mega-galleries and the contemporary market.
Eric Eyre · 2020
Pulitzer-winning local reporting on opioid distribution volumes.
Robert L. FitzPatrick · 2020
The fuller argument that MLM's economics require continual recruitment.
Ross Douthat · 2020
Argument that rich societies have stagnated into repetition and sterility
Recommended byPeter Thiel
Austin Frerick · 2024
Concentration of ownership across American agriculture.
“Tom Wolfe's portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters is a document of the world Brand inhabited before the Whole Earth Catalog. He appears in it. The book captures both the utopian energy and the internal contradictions of the counterculture Brand would spend decades translating into practical tools.”Stewart Brand
Peter Thiel, David O. Sacks · 1995
Subtitled 'Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus'
David Sedaris · 1997
Recommended bySophie Bakalar
Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson · 1998
Analysis of the brand-marketing machine at its peak.
Lloyd Bradley · 2000
Recommended byDaniel Ek
Tom Wolfe · 2000
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
George Orwell · 2002
Recommended byRyan HolidayGuy Spier
Peter C. Whybrow · 2005
Recommended bySimon Sinek
Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss · 2006
Recommended byThe Barefoot Investor
Michael Lewis · 2006
Recommended byEv Williams
Lenore Skenazy · 2009
Recommended byPaul Graham
William J. Birnes · 2013
Recommended byBalaji S. Srinivasan
Catherine Burns, Neil Gaiman · 2017
Recommended byZoë Foster Blake
Jia Tolentino · 2019
Recommended bySophie Bakalar
Bret Easton Ellis · 2019
Recommended byKeith Rabois
Rory Sutherland, Pete Dyson · 2021
Open Library unreachable this run; title not machine-verified.
Jonathan Harr
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
P.J. O'Rourke
Recommended byEric Weinstein
Various Authors
Recommended byRichard Branson
Erich Fromm
Recommended byNat Eliason
Priceonomics
Recommended byGarry Tan
George Dohrmann
Recommended byJeff Jordan
Virginia Postrel
Recommended byDiana Kimball
Joseph Addison
Recommended byPaul Graham
Sheila Heti et al.
Recommended byAudrey Gelman

Experts 52

The people who wrote this page's books, and the people who recommend them.

Authors 5

Michael Lewiswrote 1 book herePeter Thielwrote 1 book hereFrederick Lewis Allenwrote 1 book hereRory Sutherlandwrote 1 book hereTyler Cowenwrote 1 book here

Recommenders 48

MP
Mohnish Pabrairecommends 13 books here
Patrick Collisonrecommends 11 books hereMarc Andreessenrecommends 5 books hereAudrey Gelmanrecommends 5 books here
NE
Nat Eliasonrecommends 5 books here
Ryan Holidayrecommends 4 books herePaul Grahamrecommends 3 books here
BS
Balaji S. Srinivasanrecommends 3 books here
Eric Weinsteinrecommends 3 books hereRichard Bransonrecommends 3 books here
SB
Sophie Bakalarrecommends 3 books here
AW
Andrew Wilkinsonrecommends 2 books here
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