?Well written and extensively researched, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of consumption and experience in contemporary society'

-- Garry Crawford, co-author of 'Video Games as Culture'

'An enlightening grand tour of the neoliberal experience economy. Probing beneath the ideological rhetoric of self-expressive consumer choices, Miles reveals how the psycho-social effects of the experience economy are governed by new forms of capitalist influence'

-- Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business Biografía del autor

Steven Miles is Professor in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of five single authored books including Consumerism as a Way of Life (Sage, 1998) Spaces for Consumption (Sage, 2004) and Retail and the Artifice of Social Change (Routledge, 2016). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Culture.