The overspent American : upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer
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The overspent American : upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer
Basic Books, c1998
1st ed
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Prefectural University of Hiroshima Library and Academic Information Center
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-196) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An in-depth look at the corruption of the American Dream, the follow-up to the the Overworked American examines the consumer lives of Americans and the pitfalls of keeping up with the Joneses. Schor explains how and why the purchases of others in our social and professional communities can put pressure on us to spend more than we can afford to, how television viewing can undermine our ability to save, and why even households with good incomes have taken on so much debt for so many products they dont need and often dont even want.
Table of Contents
Introduction Communicating with Commodities: How What We Buy Speaks Volumes The Visible Lifestyle: American Symbols of Status When Spending Becomes You The Downshifter Next Door Learning Diderots Lesson: Stopping the Upward Creep of Desire Epilogue: Will Consuming Less Wreck the Economy?
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