The challenge of affluence
Subtitle: self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950
By: Avner Offer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780198208532
Subjects: Wealth -- Social aspects -- United States; Wealth -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Social values -- United States; Social values -- Great Britain; Quality of life -- United States; Quality of life -- Great Britain
Other titles: Self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950
Description: "Avner Offer argues that a sense of well-being has lagged behind affluence in these societies because they present an environment in which consistent choices are difficult to achieve and in which the capacity for personal and social commitment is undermined by the flow of novelty. His approach draws on economics and social science, makes use of the latest cognitive research, and provides a detailed and reasoned critique of modern consumer society, especially the assumption that freedom of choice necessarily maximizes individual and social well-being."--Jacket.