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    The Consumer Society

    Juliet Schor

    A unique and definitive read on our national passion –buying stuff–and its consequences for American society, this landmark work of social criticism is sure to become the standard book on…

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    After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back

    Juliet Schor

    Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards

    A Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie Book

    The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb…

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    The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer

    Juliet Schor

    Thick with survey data, less taxing than a saunter through Saks, Schor’s study is a scornful indictment of consumerism–which, she argues, has created a nation of debtors but failed to…

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    Sustainable Economy For The Future

    Juliet Schor

    An updated edition of the pamphlet originally published in 1955 which examines how western society can begin to make the shift away from a resource-destructive society to one that values…

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    The Overworked America: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure

    Juliet Schor

    This study looks at the decline of leisure time and the reasons for this decline - mainly the historical preference of employers for longer hours. In the last 20 years…

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    Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century

    Juliet Schor,Karl Steyaert,Juliet B. Schor

    A collection of essays by writers on sustainable living, examining how we can spend less, consume less, and restore greater balance in our lives. The contributors include Juliet Schor, Bill…

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    Do Americans Shop Too Much?

    Juliet Schor

    Juliet Schor breaks a taboo by exposing Americans’ shopping habits to moral society. Schor disapproves of unfettered private consumption, not only because we already use up so much, but also…

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    True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

    Juliet B. Schor

    A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live. Economist Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the…

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    Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Expose of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children Believe They Are What They Own. (USA Today)

    Juliet B. Schor

    Synopsis coming soon…….

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    Financial Openness and National Autonomy: Opportunities and Constraints

    A study of the effect that internationalization and deregulation of financial markets has had on the ability of governments of developing countries to control their own fiscal and monetary policy.

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    The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience

    This book seeks to understand the making and unmaking of the ‘golden age’ of capitalism in the 1950s and 1960s. Blending historical analysis with economic theory, it questions the basis…

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    Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth

    Lauren Greenfield

    A highly anticipated monograph from the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer and filmmaker

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    The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society

    This academic, multi-author reference work will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers within social science programs who seek to better understand economics through a contemporary lens.

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    After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back

    Juliet Schor,William Attwood-Charles,Mehmet Cansoy,Lindsey Luka Carfagna,Samantha Eddy

    The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to make it equitable for the users and workers most exploited.

    When the sharing economy launched a decade…

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    Disinherited Majority: Capital Questions-Piketty and Beyond

    Charles Derber,Juliet B. Schor,Chuck Collins,Josh Hoxie,Yale Magrass

    Thomas Piketty’s blockbuster 2014 book, Capital in the 21st Century, may prove to be a game-changer, one of those rare books such as Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, which helped spark…

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    Disinherited Majority: Capital Questions-Piketty and Beyond

    Charles Derber,Juliet B. Schor,Chuck Collins,Josh Hoxie,Yale Magrass

    Thomas Piketty’s blockbuster 2014 book, Capital in the 21st Century, may prove to be a game-changer, one of those rare books such as Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, which helped spark…

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    Higher Education: Open for Business

    Presents a critique of the emergence of commercial values in a system reserved for learning and scholastic inquiry.

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    Higher Education: Open for Business

    Presents a critique of the emergence of commercial values in a system reserved for learning and scholastic inquiry.

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