Spoiling Affluence
How Market Prosperity Limits Market Satisfactions
By James H. Klumpner
Spoiling Affluence shows how unending market growth tempts us with transient pleasures, depletes our savings, imposes insecurity, weakens social bonds, and devours our time and energy. Conventional economics promotes such perverse economic growth, but getting more GDP should be a low priority for societies that already have lots of GDP.
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“A solid, enjoyable and fast moving introduction to the absurdities of unending economic growth. Highly recommended!”
---Gar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
“Spoiling Affluence is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing the rich democracies in continuing to deliver rising satisfaction.”
---George Tyler, author of What Went Wrong?
“Spoiling Affluence is a clever, witty takedown of the market economists who have fathered our nation’s crisis of growing inequality in a culture of conspicuous consumption.”
---Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of The Good Spy and American Prometheus
