This collection of essays provides a personal, thought-provoking and often humorous documentation of the evolution of the field of consumer research. The book highlights aspects of hotly debated issues that surround this field of inquiry, and presents a picture of how consumer research has grown and developed over the past 25 years.This collection of essays provides a personal, thought-provoking and often humorous documentation of the evolution of the field of consumer research. The book highlights aspects of hotly debated issues that surround this field of inquiry, and presents a picture of how consumer research has grown and developed over the past 25 years.A Brief History of Morris the Cat Theory Development is a Jazz Solo On Hatching a Program of Consumer Research What Is Consumer Research? O, Consumer, How You've Changed Whither Consumer Research? Romanticism, Subjective Personal Introspection, and Morris the Epicurean The Role of Lyricism in Consumer Research Dogmatism and Catastrophe in the Development of Marketing Thought I'm Hip Epilogue