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Books
- Gina Lake, 2007, The Anatomy of Desire
- Thorsten Veblen, 1899, Theory of the Leisure Class (full text)
Roger Sandall, 2001, The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays (website)
- Patricia Martin, 2007, Rengen: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What It Means to Your Business (website)
- Timothy Ferris, 2007, The 4-Hour Work Week:: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (website)
- Vance Packard, 1957, The Hidden Persuaders
- James H. Gilmore & B. Joseph, II Pine, 2008, Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (website)
- Clay Shirky, 2008, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (website)
- Rob Walker, 2008, Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (website)
- Judith Levine, 2006, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping.
Websites
Blogs
Reports
- National Geographic/ GlobeScan Greendex Survey (full report)
Articles
- Roger Sandall, Apr 2005, 10,000 Years of Nostalgia (Spiked)
- Roger Sandall, Mar 2005, The Noble Savage (Spiked)
- Roger Sandall, Mar 2005, Tribal Yearnings (Spiked)
- Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, The Neuroscience of Retailing, The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2008
Blog Posts
Papers
- Lorrin M. Koran, M.D., Ronald J. Faber, Ph. D., Elias Aboujaoude, M.A., M.D., Michael D. Large, Ph.D., and Richard T. Serpe, Ph.D; Estimated Prevalence of Compulsive Buying Behavior in the United States; American Journal of Psychiatry; October 2006.
- Donald W. Black, M.D., Susan Repertinger, M.D., Gary R. Gaffney, M.D., and Janelle Gabel, R.N.; Family History and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Persons With Compulsive Buying: Preliminary Findings; American Journal of Psychiatry; July 1998.
- Eric Hollander, M.D., and Andrea Allen, Ph.D; Is Compulsive Buying a Real Disorder, and Is It Really Compulsive?; American Journal of Psychiatry; October 2006.
- M Lejoyeux, J Ades, V Tassain and J Solomon; Phenomenology and Psychopathology of Uncontrolled Buying; American Journal of Psychiatry; 1996.
- Shopping: When It’s a Disease; Journal Watch Psychiatry; February 1997.
- Cynthia E. Cryder, Jennifer S. Lerner, James J. Gross, and Ronald E. Dahl; Misery Is Not Miserly: Sad and Self-Focused Individuals Spend More; Psychological Science; June 2008.
