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'Takes us on a powerful analytic journey that exposes the underpinning ideological processes that define who and what we are as citizens of a society driven by consumerism'

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Pauline Maclaran, Professor of Marketing & Consumer Research in the School of Management at Royal Ho

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‘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'

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

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'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'

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Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Hel