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UNINA9911095911903321 |
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Grigsby Mary <1952-> |
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Buying time and getting by : the voluntary simplicity movement / / Mary Grigsby |
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Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
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Voluntary simplicity movement |
Simplicity |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index. |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Voluntary Simplicity: A Cultural Movement -- The Ecological Ethic and the Spirit of Voluntary Simplicity -- Getting a Life: Constructing a Moral Identity in the Voluntary Simplicity Movement -- Gendered Visions of Process, Power, and Community in the Voluntary Simplicity Movement -- Looking into the Shadows: The Politics of Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity in the Voluntary Simplicity Movement -- New Tools and Old: Transformation and Reproduction in the Voluntary Simplicity Movement -- Selected Voluntary Simplicity Resources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Buying Time and Getting By provides a detailed account of the voluntary simplicity movement, which took off in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The concept of voluntary simplicity encompasses both self-change aimed at bringing personal practice into alignment with ecological values and cultural change that rejects consumerist values and careerism. While simple livers struggle with self-change, they work toward the broader goals of a sustainable global environment, sustainable communities, increased equality in access to resources, and economies aimed at human quality of life rather than profit. Author Mary Grigsby looks inside the movement at the daily lives of participants and includes their own accounts of their efforts. She also uses reflexive empirical analysis to explore race, class, |
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and gender in relation to the movement. The influence of the dominant culture and institutionalized power in shaping the movement are balanced with the importance of participants' dynamic identity work. |
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UNINA9911133423603321 |
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Frank Robert |
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Falling Behind : How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class / / Robert Frank |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Wildavsky Forum Series ; ; 4 |
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Consumption (Economics) -- United States |
Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States |
Income distribution -- United States |
Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Preface to the 2007 Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent Changes in Income and Wealth Inequality -- 3. Inequality, Happiness, and Health -- 4. Envy or Context? -- 5. The Rising Cost of Adequate -- 6. Why Do We Care about Rank? -- 7. What Types of Consumption Are Most Sensitive to Context? -- 8. How Can Middle-Class Families Afford to Keep Up? -- 9. Smart for One, Dumb for All -- 10. Looking Ahead -- 11. Lessons for Public Policy -- 12. Reflections -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry |
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record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Writing in lively prose for a general audience, Frank employs up-to-date economic data and examples drawn from everyday life to shed light on reigning models of consumer behavior. He also suggests reforms that could mitigate the costs of inequality. Falling Behind compels us to rethink how and why we live our economic lives the way we do. |
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