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- Published: 1 March 2008
- ISBN: 9780091900113
- Imprint: Vermilion
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $32.99
Affluenza
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- Published: 1 March 2008
- ISBN: 9780091900113
- Imprint: Vermilion
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $32.99
Oliver James is excellent at showing why social scientists think that the surge in material affluence can produce the opposite of happiness.
Avner Offer, Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford
Should be mandatory reading for everyone
Will Self
Never before have I read a book that so precisely captures the way we are all being emotionally snookered by the demands of 21st-century living... read this book
Jeremy Vine
An absorbing and effective wake-up call
London Lite
A wonderfully clear and cogent thesis
Guardian
as Oliver James's very important book demonstrates...he has thought about the problem a lot and he approaches it in a very winning fashion...he is consistently engaging in both his apercus and his occasionally eccentric asides
Nick Lezard, The Guardian