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...stock analysts, accounting fraud and CEO paychecks. Or, we can read the U.S. News &World Report fat double issue, “A Consumer Survival Guide.” Think about it—more than two-thirds of the jobs in the U.S. economy depend upon consumer expenditure. Consumers??that means you and I—own this economy; our cash makes it run. Still, the best we are offered is advice on how to survive the onslaught of mistreatment we routinely face. All of this is an unprecedented expression of contempt for us, today?...
With her audience of eager graduate students and baby boomers cozily nestled between parted stacks, Cohen braved last Friday’s snowstorm to speak about her latest book, A Consumers?? Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Even C-SPAN was undeterred by the weather, arriving in full force with cameras and boom microphones to hear Cohen kick off the Harvard Book Store’s spring “Friday Forum” series...
...Consumers?? Republic begins by describing Cohen’s middle class family in New Jersey, which she describes as the quintessential suburban state...
...consumers?? republic has evolved into the “consumerization of the republic,” Cohen says, a state in which everything is valued in terms of personal returns, and where everyone asks, “‘Am I getting my money’s worth?’ not ‘Will it benefit the country as a whole...
Howell, who calls Question 1 a “bold first step towards small government,” says that repealing the state income tax will create 300,000 to 500,000 new jobs in Massachusetts by pumping money into local consumers?? pockets...