Frank Trentmann: A world of consumers | Keynote Lecture | Economia Festival from lse 2016 Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 44 min 98 sec ✓ Published: 26-May-2017
Description: Why we have too much stuff, and what can we do about it? Dr. Frank Trentmann will talk about the epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years. What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies thrive or wither by our spending. We are increasingly being treated as consumers rather than workers, and even public services are presented to us in the same manner as products in a supermarket. In his monumental study 'Empire
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