The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need

By Juliet B. Schor, Juliet Schor

True Wealth

By Juliet B. Schor

A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live. In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects...

The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure

By Juliet B. Schor, Juliet Schor

The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, And The New Consumer

By Juliet B. Schor, Juliet Schor

Juliet Schor presents original research showing how keeping up with the Joneses has evolved from keeping pace with one's neighbors and others in a similar social set to keeping up with a referent g...

Born to Buy

By Juliet B. Schor

"Juliet Schor examines how a marketing effort of vast size, scope, and effectiveness has created "commercialized children."" "Schor, author of The Overworked American and The Overspent American, lo...

Born to Buy

By Juliet B. Schor, Juliet Schor

Do Americans Shop Too Much?

By Juliet Schor

Juliet Schor breaks a taboo by exposing Americans' shopping habits to moral society. Schor disapproves of unfettered private consumption, not only because we already use up so much, but also becaus...

Sustainable Planet

By Juliet Schor

Can we find ways of living that are sustainable and deeply satisfying, that ensure economic and political democracy, and are passionate about beauty, elegant design, and the wildness of nature? The...

Tunnel vision

By Daniel J. Cantor

The Consumer Society Reader

By Douglas Holt