Affluenza : how overconsumption is killing us-- and how we can fight back
By: De Graaf, John
Title By: Wann, David | Naylor, Thomas H
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BookPublisher: San Francisco : Berett-Koehler Publication, Inc., c2014.Edition: 3rd ed.Description: x, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781609949273Subject(s): Quality of life -- United States | Wealth -- United States | Consumption (Economics) -- United StatesDDC classification: 306.30973 DE AF Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 306.30973 DE AF (Browse shelf) | Available | July2018 | T0060275 |
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| 306.309 MC DE Development and social change : | 306.309 MC DE Development and social change : | 306.30951 TI CO Consumer-citizens of China : | 306.30973 DE AF Affluenza : | 306.30973 RO IM The impulse society : | 306.34 AR CH The architecture of illegal markets : | 306.34 BE PE The penguin and the Leviathan : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index.
Contents: Pt. 1. Symptoms
Feverish expectations
All stuffed up
Stressed to kill
Family fractures
Community chills
Heart failure
Social scars
Resource exhaustion
Industrial diarrhea
A cancerous culture
Pt. 2. Causes
Early infections
An ounce of prevention
The road not taken
An emerging epidemic
The age of affluenza
Spin doctors
Pt. 3. Cures
Diagnostic test
Bed rest
Affluholics anonymous
Fresh air
Back to work
Building community
Policy prescriptions
Vital signs
The glow of health.
Summary: We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. This book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague. The new edition traces the role overconsumption played in the Great Recession, discusses new ways to measure social health and success (such as the Gross Domestic Happiness Index), and offers policy recommendations to make our society more simplicity-friendly. The underlying message isn't to stop buying - it's to remember, always, that the best things in life aren't things.