Avner Offer

Broschiertes Buch

The Challenge of Affluence

Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950

Beschreibung

A detailed, reasoned, and persuasive critique of modern consumer society in Britain and the United States since the Second World War, which powerfully questions the assumption that freedom of choice necessarily maximizes individual and social well-being.

Autor

Avner Offer is Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College. Prior to his academic career he spent eight years working as a soldier, farmer, and conservation worker in Israel, where he was born and raised. His other books include In Pursuit of the Quality of Life (1996), also published by Oxford University Press, and he has been researching the question of the quality of life in affluent societies since the early 1990s. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9780199216628
• ISBN-10: 0199216622
• Artikelnr.: 23089840