consumerismn.
/kənˈsjuːmərɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /kənˈs(j)umərˌɪzəm/ Originally U.S.
1. Advocacy of the rights and interests of consumers.In quot. 1915 probably: the interests of consumers.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > consumer protection or advocacy
consumerism1915
Naderism1967
1915 Colman's Rural World 25 Mar. 9/1 In the end crusaderism will stand for consumerism and the demand for milk in the cities, and producerism will stand in possession of the supply of milk.
1924 Chehalis (Washington) Bee-Nugget 28 Mar. 6/2 A session on ‘Consumerism’ will bring out some very unusual discussions on certain competitive tendencies, such as house-to-house canvassers and itinerant merchants.
1928 J. K. Folsom Culture & Social Progress xvii. 480 Producerism versus consumerism.—A fourth great issue in the distribution of power, as yet dimly recognized, is that of producer control versus consumer control.
1944 New Republic 4 Sept. 276/1 Some of the oldest and most successful consumer enterprises grew independently of the rural impulse that in recent years has been most active in spreading the idea of consumerism.
1970 Sunday Times 24 May 50/1 Consumerism is the outgrowth of the consumer-protection movement of the 1960s.
1998 E. McAuliffe in E. McAuliffe & L. Joyce Healthier Future? (2003) xviii. 292 Consumerism is concerned not just with recognition but also with the protection of consumers' rights.
2.
a. Political Economy. A doctrine advocating a continual increase in the consumption of goods as a basis for a sound economy.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > specific theories or doctrines
Ricardianism1827
protectionism1846
physiocracy1856
Smithianism1880
quantity theory1885
physiocratism1890
fiscalism1892
tariffism1903
cameralism1909
marginalism1912
rationalism1915
consumerism1921
Kondratieff1935
Keynesian economics1940
Keynesianism1942
Walras' law1942
Chicago school1949
Paretanism1949
neo-Keynesianism1961
Okun's Law1962
structuralism1962
monetarism1967
market fundamentalism1984
1921 S. A. Reeve Mod. Econ. Tendencies xxiv. 732 Every feature of those huge economic forces which he himself has set into motion, by his own good money..may be given the name consumerism.
1932 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 22 Oct. 4/2 A book by Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild, ‘Profits or Prosperity?’ suggests a new economic doctrine that might be called ‘consumerism’. The author points to consumption, rather than production, as the important thing if we are going to make the industrial system work.
1960 V. Packard Waste Makers (1961) iii. 23 A leading apostle of ‘consumerism’..pointed out that every recent United States recession had been caused by..a failure to see that consumption kept pace with production.
2005 M. Sengayen in D. Fairgrieve Product Liability in Compar. Perspective xiv. 260 The specific time when the ideas of consumerism became popular depended upon the level of economic and social development of a particular jurisdiction.
b. (Excessive) emphasis on or preoccupation with the acquisition of consumer goods. Frequently depreciative.
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1960 Amer. Catholic Sociol. Rev. 21 373 The ever-increasing commercialism of every aspect of our lives, ‘consumerism’, consumption for consumption's sake.
1979 Maclean's 11 June 34/3 Consumerism is the reigning form of escapism as students buy the latest in Japanese motor bikes and sound equipment.
1996 J. Brown Hong Kong & Macau: Rough Guide (ed. 3) 119 Amid the morass of consumerism are pockets of culture—an excellent Cultural Centre and a museum or two.
2004 Guardian 6 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 64/4 You thought yoga was all about purity of spirit and shunning consumerism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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