The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950 by Avner Offer

The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950

Avner Offer

454 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative medium-paced
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Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including family breakdown, addiction, mental instability, crime, obesity, ine...

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