Pursuing Happiness

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$42.13 - $50.78
UPC:
9780691043227
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
7/12/1993
Author:
Stanley Lebergott
Language:
english
Edition:
First Edition

Product Overview

Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provocative look at what they have chosen to purchase. Stanley Lebergott maintains that the average consumer has behaved more reasonably than many distinguished critics of materialism have suggested. He sees consumers seeking to make an uncertain and often cruel world into a pleasanter and more convenient place--and, for the most part, succeeding. With refreshing common sense, he reminds us of what many luxuries have meant, especially for women: increased income since 1900 has been used largely to lighten the backbreaking labor once required by household chores.

Originally published in 1993.

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