Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
by:
David Wann (author)
John De Graaf (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781576751992 (1576751996)
Publish date: August 9th 2002
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Book Club,
Science,
Environment,
Economics,
Culture,
Politics,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Social Science,
Sustainability
Divided into three sections: Part I: Symptoms, Part II: Causes, and Part III: Treatment, this book tackles the question of whether or not the conspicuous consumption that is an aspect of the American lifestyle has a positive or a negative influence on the various satisfaction/happiness measures expe...
The style was generally much too off-putting, but I was intrigued by the fascinating chapter on how the US came extremely close to a thirty-hour workweek after the Great Depression, until FDR vetoed the law (already overwhelmingly approved by Congress) in favour of a forty-hour week plus the New Dea...
In each of the past four years more Americans declared personal bankruptcy than graduated from college. Our annual production of solid waste would fill a convoy of garbage trucks stretching halfway to the moon. We have twice as many shopping centers as high schools.Fascinating, important informati...
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