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Zygmunt Bauman's writings on liquid modernity have altered the way we think about the contemporary world. In this book, he explores the sources of the endemic uncertainty which shapes our lives &, in so doing, he provides the reader with a brief introduction to his original acco…
Zygmunt Bauman's writings on liquid modernity have altered the way we think about the contemporary world. In this book, he explores the sources of the endemic uncertainty which shapes our lives &, in so doing, he provides the reader with a brief introduction to his original acco…
... affluenza is an addiction, or at least a pernicious habit ... This book [can] be seen as an intervention. [It] asks us to face our consumption-generated problems. It doesn't ridicule us, but it doesn't pull punches. And, like an intervention for other substance-abuse problem…
Affluenza: the all-consuming epidemic
by Naylor, Thomas H., De Graaf, John, Wann, David
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In chapters with titles like Swollen Expectations and A Rash of Bankruptcies, Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done--to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment--by the obsessive quest for mater…
In this indictment of consumerism, de Graaf et al. treat the social problem they call "affluenza" like a disease, discussing symptoms, treatment, and causes for this "painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogg…
Presents a visual survey of global trends and current events, with statistics on population, communications and information technology, international trade, aging, health risks, food and water, energy resources and consumption, global warming and biodiversity, literacy, gender e…
The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has wid…
Social exclusion: short and long term causes and consequences ; [pr…
by Parodi, Giuliana, Sciulli, Dario, Thematic Session on "Social Exclusion", Chieti-Pescara, Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro, Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economists (AIEL), Chieti-Pescara
fromAIEL Series in Labour Economics
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The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has wid…
