Pub Date: March 28, 2017
Dewey: 339.47019
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.93" H x 8.25" L x 5.50" W ( 1.13 lbs) 250 pages
BISAC Categories:
Psychology | Social Psychology | Business and Economics | Consumer Behavior | General | Social Science | Popular Culture | Sociology | Economics | Macroeconomics
Series: Rebel Reads
Description: In his 1983 classic The Poverty of Affluence, Paul Wachtel examines the psychological underpinnings of our insatiable desire for growth, and endless quest for?more whether in jobs, relationships, or any other sphere of life?suggesting that our commitment to consumption is in fact an increasingly desperate attempt to replace the sense of community that our very growth has torn apart.