The High Price of Materialism more books like this

by Tim Kasser

In this volume, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to improve our well-being. Kasser goes beyond these ...

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Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World more books like this

by Tim Kasser, Allen D Kanner

This book provides an in-depth analysis of consumerism that draws from a wide range of theoretical, clinical and methodological approaches. Contributors demonstrate that consumerism and the culture that surrounds it exert profound and often undesirable effects on both people's individual lives and on society as a whole. Far from being distant ...

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A General Theory of Acquisitivity: On Human Nature, Productivity and Survival more books like this

by Wayne Jett

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Anxieties of Affluence more books like this

by Daniel Horowitz

This work charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begins with an examination of Lewis Mumford's wartime call for "democratic" consumption and concludes with an analysis of the origins of Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech of 1979. It documents a broad range of ...

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Exploring and Treating Acquisitive Desire: Living in the Material World more books like this

by Dr. Jeffrey A Kottler

This book demonstrates how what we own can control us - the terminal stage of the social disease of acquisitive desire for material things. Topics covered include: what acquisitive desire means in people's lives; diagnosis and treatment of consumer disorders; interventions and clinical issues for those who follow an excessively materialistic ...

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Hoarding more books like this

by S. M. A. Malik

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