The anxieties of affluence : critiques of American consumer culture, 1939-1979
by
Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-
Title
:
The anxieties of affluence : critiques of American consumer culture, 1939-1979
Author
:
Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-
ISBN
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9781558495043
9781558494329
Personal Author
:
Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-
Publication Information
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.
Physical Description
:
ix, 339 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
:
1. Chastened Consumption: World War II and the Campaign for a Democratic Standard of Living -- 2. Celebratory Emigres: Ernest Dichter and George Katona -- 3. A Southerner in Exile, the Cold War, and Social Order: David M. Potter's People of Plenty -- 4. Critique from Within: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan -- 5. From the Affluent Society to the Poverty of Affluence, 1960-1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson -- 6. Consumer Activism, 1965-1970: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich -- 7. The Energy Crisis and the Quest to Contain Consumption: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah -- 8. Three Intellectuals and a President: Jimmy Carter, "Energy and the Crisis of Confidence" -- Epilogue: The Response to Affluence at the End of the Century.
Subject Term
:
Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Attitudes.
Acquisitiveness -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Affluent consumers -- United States -- Psychology.
Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- Public opinion.
Wealth -- United States -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015769397 | 339.47 H816A 2004 | 1 |