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
9781558495043
 
9781558494329

Personal Author
Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-

Publication Information
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
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip046/2003016300.html


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