| Description |
1 online resource (199 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Consumption and Well-Being, An Introduction / Miriam Tatzel -- PART I: Money and Consumption for Well-Being -- Chapter 2: Money for Happiness: The Hedonic Benefits of Thrift / Joseph Chancellor and Sonja Lyubomirsky -- Chapter 3: Getting the Most for the Money: The Hedonic Return on Experiential and Material Purchases / Travis J. Carter and Thomas Gilovich -- Chapter 4: Loneliness, Material Possession Love and Consumers' Physical Well-Being / John L. Lastovicka and Laurel Anderson -- PART II: Individual and Cultural Variations -- Chapter 5: Value Seekers, Big Spenders, Non-Spenders and Experiencers: Consumption, Personality and Well-Being / Miriam Tatzel -- Chapter 6: Money, Materialism and the Good Life: Cultural Perspectives / Christie Napa Scollon and Derrick Wirtz -- PART III: Consumption and Sustainable Well-Being -- Chapter 7: Happy Planet, Happy Economy, Happy Consumers / Charles Seaford -- Chapter 8: Measuring What Matters / Eric Zencey -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Confessions of a Closet Materialist: Lessons Learned about Money, Possessions and Happiness / Miriam Tatzel |
| Summary |
This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is associated with lowered well-being (materialists are less happy) and that consumerism, in all its profusion, is harmful to environmental well-being. How can we use the money and possessions in our lives in the service of well-being? Apparently not by being materialistic. Can we benefit from the many wonders of the marketplace -- in technology, convenience and aesthetics -- without falling prey to the lures and dangers of excessive material preoccupation? |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Materialism.
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Consumption (Economics)
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Well-being.
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Industrial policy.
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Trade regulation.
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Human comfort.
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Economics.
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Quality of life.
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Economics
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Quality of Life
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economics.
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quality of life.
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materialism (philosophical movement)
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comfort (sensation)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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Quality of life
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Human comfort
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Economics
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Consumption (Economics)
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Industrial policy
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Materialism
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Trade regulation
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Well-being
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tatzel, Miriam.
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| ISBN |
9789400773684 |
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9400773684 |
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9400773676 |
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9789400773677 |
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