The authors re-examine our assumptions about poverty in America-- what it really is and how to eliminate it now.
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... 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…
Nelson locates the source of inequality and polarization within American society in the transformation of American business, describing the shifts in corporate resources and their use by the corporate sector, and the implications for inequality across the institutional spectrum.
"This book describes some of the key areas in which progressives can focus their efforts to restructure markets so that more income flows to the bulk of the working population rather than just a small elite"--Page 4 of cover.