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Juliet B. SchorPublication Details
Book1st edBasic Books1998Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HF5415.33.U6 S36 1998 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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 don?t need and often don?t even want. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "Juliet Schor presents original research showing how keeping up with the Joneses has evolved from keeping pace with one’s neighbors and others in a similar social set to keeping up with a referent group that may include co- workers who earn five times one’s own salary or television "friends" whose lifestyle is unattainable for the average person. The book also describes the growing backlash of people who are "downshifting" by working less, earning less, and finding balance by getting their lifestyles in sync with their values."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Communicating with Commodities: How What We Buy Speaks Volumes
- 3. The Visible Lifestyle: American Symbols of Status
- 4. When Spending Becomes You
- 5. The Downshifter Next Door
- 6. Learning Diderot’s Lesson: Stopping the Upward Creep of Desire
- Epilogue: Will Consuming Less Wreck the Economy?
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- 0465060560
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