The Throwaway Society: a Look in the Back Mirror

Kai-Uwe Hellmann () and Marius K. Luedicke ()
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Kai-Uwe Hellmann: TU Berlin
Marius K. Luedicke: Cass Business School, City, University of London

Journal of Consumer Policy, 2018, vol. 41, issue 1, No 6, 83-87

Abstract: Abstract Whilst public criticisms of an increasingly wasteful consumer society emerged already in late nineteenth Century, the specific concept of a “Throwaway Society” was first used in the early 1960s. This short communication sketches the passionate debate around planned obsolescence and oversaturated consumers and offers a short historical glimpse at a persistent, existential problem that still awaits effective solutions.

Keywords: Affluence; Planned obsolescence; Throwaway culture; Throwaway society; Waste; Consumer culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s10603-018-9371-6

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