Books like Consumer republic by Bruce Philp

"Moving beyond traditional "features-and-benefits" marketing, Schmitt presents a revolutionary approach to marketing for the branding and information age. Schmitt shows how managers can create holistic experiences for their customers through brands that provide sensory, affective, and creative associations as well as lifestyle marketing and social identity campaigns."--BOOK JACKET.

Explore how brands like Red Bull, the Blair Witch Project, and political campaigns achieve success with little conventional marketing in Alex Wipperfurth’s strategic guide to today’s complex market forces.

"Atkin argues that people become addicted to "cult brands" for more or less the same reasons that people become committed to cults. In The Culting of Brands, he explains how companies have fueled such unshakable allegiance." "The Culting of Brands includes interviews with current and former cult members, and some of today's most creative marketers. The book makes the connection between religion and consumerism, beliefs and buying instincts."--BOOK JACKET.

Publisher's description: In Branded, Alissa Quart takes us to the dark side of marketing to teens, showing readers a disturbingly fast-paced world in which adults shamelessly insinuate themselves into "friendships" with young people in order to monitor what they wear, eat, listen to, and buy. We travel to a conference on advertising to teenagers and witness the breathless and insensitive pronouncements of lecturers there. We meet the unofficial teen "sales force" for a new girls' perfume (the unpaid daughters of the company's saleswomen) and observe the attempts of mega-corporations to purchase the time and space for product-placement in schools. We witness the aggressive and potentially emotionally damaging ways in which adults seek to control vulnerable young minds and wallets. But we also witness the bravery of isolated and increasingly Internet-linked kids who attempt to turn the tables on the cocksure corporations that so cynically strive to manipulate them. Eye-opening and urgent, Branded exposes and condemns a segment of American business whose high-paid job it is to reduce teens to their lowest common denominator, to systematically sap youth of individuality and creativity. Engaging and thought provoking, Branded ensures that consumers will never look at the American way of doing business in the same way again.

A social and political history describes how mass consumption and the pursuit of prosperity transformed American life during the second half of the twentieth century.