The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need: Amazon.de: Juliet B. Schor: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 272 Seiten
Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks; Auflage: 1st HarperPerennial Ed (7. April 1999)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0060977582
ISBN-13: 978-0060977580
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 20,2 x 13,5 x 1,7 cm

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If getting and spending define our lives, then Juliet Schor now has us covered. Six years ago, her book The Overworked American scrutinized the getting part. It focused public attention on the disappearance of leisure and the harmful effects thereof on families and society. It sparked a debate over whether Americans really work as much as we proudly claim. (If so, how to explain the audience for Monday Night Football?) Nevertheless, Schor can take credit for helping push Congress into passing the Family Leave Act in 1993.

Now she is back with a critique of our spending. Schor notes that, despite rising wealth and incomes, Americans do not feel any better off. In fact, we tell pollsters we do not have enough money to buy everything we need. And we are almost as likely to say so if we make $85,000 a year as we are if we make $35,000. Schor believes that "keeping up with the Joneses" is no longer enough for today's media-savvy office workers. We set our sights on the lifestyles of those higher up the organizational chart. We seek to emulate characters on TV. For teenagers, "enough" is the idle splendor that hardly exists outside of what MTV un-ironically calls The Real World. Schor offers an original and provocative analysis of why many Americans feel driven and unhappy despite our success. As an alternative, she profiles several "downshifters" who've taken up voluntary simplicity in search of a more satisfying way of life. No policy solutions suggest themselves this time, only a change of heart. --Barry Mitzman -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Consuming more now and enjoying it less? In this heavily researched but accessible work, Schor (Womens Studies/Harvard; The Overworked American, 1992) tells us how and why this is so and what we might do about it. ``See-want-borrow-and-buy'' is Schor's succinct summation of American spending habits. As status and identity become increasingly indistinguishable, our very sense of worth becomes invested in what we buy. We spend billions for status. Given identical pairs of jeans, identical tubes of lipstick, we will more than likely buy, at a much higher price, the item with the designer label. Yet, such spending is self-defeating and never-ending. We no longer wish simply to keep up with our neighbors, but to emulate the spending habits of the richest 20 percent of Americans (television is the main vehicle through which we know what they buy). As their consumption increases, then, so does ours. The result of this endless game of catch-up is Americans working more, going increasingly into debt, but finding themselves no more happy or contented, in fact often a great deal less so. Further, as we spend privately our support for collective consumptionon education, social services, public safetydiminishes, further eroding our sense of well-being. Its possible, but not easy given how natural it seems, to get out of this cycle of self-defeating consumption. Millions of Americans, whom Schor terms ``downshifters,'' have opted to work, earn, and consume less and in the process created richer, more meaningful lives. Schor supports all of these findings with abundant, perhaps overabundant, survey data. Missing, though, is a consideration of why consumption is so deeply ingrained in us, whats lacking in our collective lives that leads to such compensatory consumption. She discusses fears of downward mobility but never really develops this theme. Despite some shortcomings, this is an important analysis of who, or perhaps what, we are. It deserves and will surely gain a wide audience. ($100,000 ad/promo; author tour; radio satellite tour) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Would benefit from more anecdotes, less statistical studies 27. Oktober 1999

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A little dry at times, but overall a good synopsis of a disturbing trend in our society. I live in a mostly lower to middle class neighborhood, yet every day I see residents driving new Mercedes, Lexus SUVs, Land Rovers, Jaguars, Hummers, and every other kind of $35,000+ car you can buy. I'm befuddled. Are these people drowning in consumer debt, are they living paycheck to paycheck, not funding their retirement plans, not sending their kids to college, or are they simply as wealthy as the status symbols they are buying or leasing would seem to indicate? Even when I take the bus through the ghetto, my fellow riders all have Coach purses, usually bigger, newer and more expensive than mine. I'm a downshifter of sorts. I try to make as much money as I can, but I keep my expenses low so that I can afford the things I really want and have money socked away. I think about every purchase I make: do I need it, or will it just be cluttering my apartment in 6 months? Is it good quality for the price I'm paying? Will it make me happy? So few consumer items fit my criteria that I'm usually able to leave a store emptyhanded, yet satisfied.

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Highly Recommended Book! 14. Oktober 1999

I have nothing to add to many of the reviews here except that I wish this was required reading for high school or college students. Even at age 37, this is perhaps one of the most important books I've read this year. This book gave me deeper insights into the American consumer trance and the insidious way it has affected (infected?) my life.

Lacked the whole truth 9. Oktober 1999

Von Ben A. Gregory jr.

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Lacked the truth on the basis this exist any way.We as a nation have given them the right to do it.We want to over analize all aspects of human nature, which in part is brought out in this book.But the real truth is we need to get in a real world about our own finances.The real truth how we prey on one another for are social acceptance,in material hording we dispose of are freedom.We also become a nation of cut throats to attain the top of heap mentality which is so rampant today.As a member of a labor union i have seen first hand this type of reasoning .From all for one to me me me is never more apparant than now .So maybe a good follow up would be ,The cut throat american.

No thank you...

I'm sorry, but this book is a reflection of a one-sided, shallow, and naive point of view. The book often attempts to draw parallels between financial class and intellectual... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 2. Mai 2000 von B. Bunting

Research is nice, but reality is even better

While I commend the author for researching her subject, I was astonished that she ignored the number one reason why people have such little money: oppressive taxation. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 23. November 1999 von D. P. Parsons

Really makes you examine your buying motives

I read this book six months ago, and its insights have stuck with me. Ms. Schor's analysis of American buying habits is right on the money, so to speak. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 8. Oktober 1999 ver�ffentlicht

A nice mix of objective and subjective views

The book caught my attention when I heard about it on the radio and read about it in a newspaper. I truly enjoyed the book. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 12. August 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Made me look at SUV's in a new light

I could not believe how accurate Schor was when describing the typical spending habits of the middle class beast. I am one! Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 9. August 1999 ver�ffentlicht

editors made her tack on the dippy "suggestions" end section

Schorr is a fine writer with a good idea, but the lightweight and naive solutions she suggests to solve our overspending are clearly New York editor-think. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 28. Juni 1999 von Gigi

Cutting back is very relative.

While thought provoking and insightful overall, Juliet B. Schor writes from a perspective that many of us will never peer from. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 28. April 1999 von Amy (amy@bluemarble.net

What is consumption for?

Juliet Schor's "The Overspent American", a sequel to her earlier work, "The Overworked American", assails our state religion of consumerism. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 24. Dezember 1998 ver�ffentlicht

good read for those trying to understand why they're in debt

This is exactly the type of book you want to check out of the library and read over a weekend when you are struggling to understand why even though you make a very decent salary,... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 22. September 1998 ver�ffentlicht

Put your economic self into perspective!

Although sometimes dry, the material in Schor's book is very thought provoking, and has in part helped me get a new perspective on life. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 20. September 1998 von amy young-leith

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