The Challenge of Affluence
Subtitle: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 24, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780199216628
Subjects: Consumer issues; Family & relationships; Social issues; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; History; Sociology; History: World; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Wealth; History / Great Britain
First sentence: Affluence breeds impatience, and impatience undermines well-being.