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First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2009.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925–

Does ethics have a chance in a world of consumers? / Zygmunt Bauman.

p. cm.—(Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-674-02780-0 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-674-03351-1 (pbk.)

1. Consumption (Economics)—Moral and ethical aspects.

2. Globalization—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title.

HC79.C6B353 2008

174—dc22      2007052153