The Book Prize Index

The Day the World Stops Shopping

J. B. MacKinnon

"Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet-but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J.B. MacKinnon investigates how we might achieve a world without shopping"--

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · high confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureOpen Library: Environmental aspects -> Nature & EnvironmentOpen Library: Environmentalism -> Nature & EnvironmentEssays & Cultural Criticism

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Governor General's Literary Awards: English-language Non-fictionMajor2021FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 40%.