One winter's evening, on the New York subway, Judith Levine decided she was tired. She was tired of all those people crammed together with their bags of shopping, iPods, expensive shoes and designer clothes.
She decided she was tired of consumerism and that she wasn't going to buy anything for 12 months. To increase her resolve, she blocked her credit card.
On the basis of her long adventure, during which she was offered all kinds of incentives to get back to a normal life, Judith wrote a book, a personal diary. You can buy it on the Web, by credit card...
We'll give you a summary of it so you can save your money. The book discovers what many psychologists have been saying for some time: that shopping can really be a mania and an addiction, an illness like tabagism and alcoholism.
The American consumer is lured into the trap by the 400 billion dollars spent on advertising every year.
No economic trend worries a government more than a slump in consumer spending.
