Sustainable Consumption Institute

Maurie J. Cohen, Professor of Sustainability Studies and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, New Jersey Institute of Technology and former SCI Visiting Professorial Fellow's latest book 'The Future of Consumer Society' now available.

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity. At the same time, steady jobs that compensate employees on a salaried or hourly basis are being replaced by freelancing and contingent work. The rise of the so-called sharing economy, the growth of do-it-yourself production, and the spreading popularity of economic localization are evidence that people are striving to find new ways to ensure livelihoods for themselves and their families in the face of profound change. Indications are that we are at the early stages of a transition away from a system of social organization predicated on consumerism. 

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