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Against thrift : why consumer culture is good for the economy, the environment, and your soul
"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...
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New York :
Basic Books,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Our very own Perestroika. Understanding backward:the past as imprisonment
- How to explain a crisis:the revenge of the Populists
- Their Great Depression and ours
- Living forward: economic history as moral philosophy, social theory, and political science
- The morality of spending. The politics of "more": from Gompers to Du Bois
- Exporting the Black Aesthetic: from Du Bois to Havel
- The wand of increase: advertising desire
- News from nowhere: advertising utopia
- It beats working: why consumer culture is good for your soul and our planet
- Coda: Bataille made me do it.