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Title: The Costs of Living by Barry Schwartz ISBN: 0-7388-5252-X Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: 10 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thoughtful, Provocative, and Readable
Comment: Ever worry that your doctor has the HMO profit margins in mind more than your care? Ever get disgusted by big time college sports? Ever worry about the erosion of values and cohesion in your community? Then this book is for you.
This is a marvelous book that explores how people should think about their places in our society. Schwartz, a Professor at Swarthmore College, has a well-deserved reputation for debunking commonly held myths promulgated by economists and others who seek to explain all human behavior by supply and demand curves, and irresistible biological imperatives.
Yes, we do have a choice about how we want our communities to function, and Schwartz tells us how we can ``reintroduce the language of responsibility and morality into our public life.''
Schwartz also has a rare gift for making complex topics seem easy to understand. This is a surprisingly readable book, full of anecdotes and examples that will help you relate the ideas to your own life. Its conclusion, about a dilemma Schwartz faced in his own community, is notable for its drama as well as for the fact that Schwartz declines to offer easy answers.
Read this book, and you will think differently (and more perceptively) about the world around you. It is *that* good.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good description of the choices of middle class life.
Comment: A good attempt at explaining the costs of living in capitalism. A bit dated considering the World Trade Organization, computerization and downsizing, but he makes points most people need to hear and consider. Well worth reading and thinking about. Order a copy and begin to think!
Rating: 5
Summary: A fantastic and important book
Comment: Read this book if you have ever been concerned about how some of our societies great institutions are being weakened by the market pressures of today. Ever worry that your doctor has the HMO profit margins in mind more than your care? Ever get disgusted by big time college sports? Ever worry about the erosion of values and cohesion in your community? Then this book is for you.
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Title: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook ISBN: 0679463038 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research by Sandra L. Schneider, James Shanteau ISBN: 052152718X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World by Tim Kasser, Allen D. Kanner, Tim, Ph.D. Kasser, Allen Kanner ISBN: 1591470463 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser ISBN: 026261197X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds by Howard Gardner ISBN: 1578517095 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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