The World of Goods

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Richard Wilk Introduction Part 1: Goods as an Information System 1. Why People Want Goods 2. Why They Save 3. The Uses of Goods 4. Exclusion, Intrusion 5. The Technology of Consumption 6. Consumption Periodicities Part 2: Implications for social policy 7. Separate Economic Spheres in Ethnography 8. International Comparisons 9. Consumption Classes 10. Control of Value Index