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The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
Offer, Avner (, Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy)
Drawing on the cognitive research, this book provides a reasoned critique of modern consumer society, especially the assumption that freedom of choice necessarily maximizes individual and social well-being. It demonstrates the comparative studies of US and British market consumption, and of personal relations.
480 pages, 30 figures and 23 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 9, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198208532 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 480 |
| Dimensions | 242 × 163 × 35 mm · 872 g |
| Language | English |