Affluenza (eBook)

How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back

John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 3. Auflage
288 Seiten
Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-60994-929-7 (ISBN)

Infos

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED

affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.

We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, 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.

Inhalt

Foreword by Annie Leonard
Introduction

Symptoms
1. Feverish Expectations
2. All Stuffed Up
3. Stressed to Kill
4. Family Fractures
5. Community Chills
6. Heart Failure
7. Social Scars
8. Resource Exhaustion
9. Industrial Diarrhea
10. A Cancerous Culture

Causes
11. Original Sin
12. Ounce of Prevention
13. The Road Not Taken
14. Emerging Epidemic
15. Age of Affluenza
16. Spin Doctors

Cures
17. Diagnostic Test
18. Bed Rest
19. Affluholics Anonymous
20. Fresh Air
21. Back to Work
22. Building Immunity
23. Policy Prescriptions
24. Vital Signs
25. The Glow of Health

Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2022
• Verlagsort: Oakland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: books for shopaholics • Capitalism • Consumer Behavior • Consumerism • consumption, consumerism, materialism, capitalism, stress, work life balance, parenting, anxiety, debt, pollution, success, happiness, personal satisfaction, contentment, overconsumption, overload, overwhelmed, waste, loneliness, mindfulness, modern world, meaningful life, family relationships, environment, politics, public policy, social change, recession, globalization, greed, excess, sustainable living, community, simplicity, social issues • crisis of consumption • crisis of consumption, consumerism, materialism, how to have a healthier lifestyle, retail industry, consumer behavior, books for shopaholics, capitalism, economic theory, globalization, social issues, environment issues, social change, pop culture • Economic Theory • Environment issues • Globalization • how to have a healthier lifestyle • Materialism • Pop culture • Retail Industry • social change • social issues
• ISBN-10: 1-60994-929-3 / 1609949293
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60994-929-7 / 9781609949297