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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This powerful video scrutinizes what Juliet Schor calls "the new consumerism" - a national phenomenon of upscale spending shaped and reinforced by a media system driven by commercial interests. Illustrated with hundreds of media examples, The Overspent American draws attention to the costs (both financial and social) of the relentless search for happiness and identity through spending.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Since the financial meltdown of 2008, economists, journalists, and politicians have uniformly insisted that to restore the American Dream and renew economic growth, we need to save more and spend less. In his provocative new book, historian James Livingston-author of the classic Origins of the Federal Reserve System-breaks from the consensus to argue that underconsumption caused the current crisis and will prolong it. By viewing the Great Recession...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A top consumer behavior expert takes us on a tour of the American obsession with consumerism, diagnoses a problem, and offers solutions. "Shiny Objects" is replete with engaging anecdotes, charts, graphs, and self-quizzes for the media and will help the reader assess the good, bad, and the ugly about their own spending habits and how to make a change for the better.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our pursuit of things? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and psychological terrain of American consumer culture, Shop 'Til You Drop challenges us to confront these questions head-on. Taking aim at the high-stress, high-octane pace of fast-lane materialism, the film moves beneath the seductive surfaces...
Series
Publisher
New Strategist Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2013 Consumer Expenditure Survey, this report presents a broad overview of household spending in the year 2013, and a comparison of spending trends before (2000 to 2006) and after (2006 to 2013) the Great Recession. This reference is designed to give researchers insights into consumer spending trends and patterns and how the patterns differ by demographic characteristics.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For the past several decades, politicians and economists have thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But an economy that works only for the rich simply doesn't work. Because the middle class is so weak, America's economy now suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. Privileged elites more frequently secure special treatment from a government that wastes money and stifles competition. Children's...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"Across these essays, Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest for meaning amid the swirl of our post-truth climate. Traversing the country, he introduces us to Americans who are contending with the aftermath of political and economic collapse and who are striving to recover some semblance of meaning and purpose. "Notes from a Last Man" chronicles a period of personal lostness and considers how the end-of-history preoccupation with wellness and...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"From the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist's craft. When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America's strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses...
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