PDF-[EBOOK] - The Joyless Economy (Revised Edition): The Psychology of Human Satisfaction

When this classic work was first published in 1976 its central tenetmore is not necessarily betterplaced it in direct conflict with mainstream thought in economics Within a few years however this apparently paradoxical claim was gaining wide acceptance Scitovskys groundbreaking book was the first to apply theories of behaviorist psychology to questions of consumer behavior and to do so in clear nontechnical language Setting out to analyze the failures of our consumerist lifestyle Scitovsky concluded that peoples need for stimulation is so vital that it can lead to violence if not satisfied by noveltywhether in challenging work art fashion gadgets latemodel cars or scandal Though much of the book stands as a record of American postwar prosperity and its accompanying problems the revised edition also takes into account recent social and economic changes A new preface and a foreword by economist Robert Frank introduce some of the issues created by those changes and two revised chapters develop them discussing among others the assimilation of countercultural ideas throughout American society especially ideas concerning quality of life Scitovsky draws fascinating connections between the new elite of collegeeducated consumers and the emergence of a growing underclass plagued by drugs and violence perceptively tracing the reactions of these disparate groups to the problems of leisure and boredom In the wake of the socalled decade of greed and amidst calls for a kindler gentler society The Joyless Economy seems more timely than ever. 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