Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul
Benjamin Kunkel, author ofIndecisionand founding editor ofn +1“While madmen in authority declare a new age of austerity, James Livingston has—in the best American tradition—written a radically commonsensical and scandalously good-natured ode to abundance.Against Thriftseems to me easily the most original and potentially the most important book yet to emerge from the ongoing economic crisis.”