Book reviews.
- Zygmunt Bauman, Consuming Life (160 pp., Polity, 2007)
- Benjamin R Barber, Consumed. How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (406 pp., W. W. Norton & Co, 2007)
- Eric Clark, The Real Toy Story. Inside the Ruthless Battle for Britain’s Youngest Consumers (332 pp., Black Swan, 2007)
- William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Shramm , Good capitalism, Bad capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (321 pp., Yale University Press, 2007)
- Robert B. Reich , Supercapitalism. The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (272 pp., Knopf, 2007)
- Gabor Steingart, Weltkrieg um Wohlstand. Wie Macht und Reichtum neu verteilt werden ("War for Wealth: The Global Grab for Power and Prosperity") (397 pp., Piper, 2007 )
- Gerhard Schulze, Die Sünde. Das Schöne Leben under seine Feinde ("Sin. The Good Life and its Enemies") (288 pp., Hanser, 2006)