The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction by Tibor Scitovsky

The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction

Tibor Scitovsky

352 pages first pub 1976 (view editions)

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A probing, quietly urgent critique of consumer excess for readers who savor intellectually rich, counter-intuitive essays that question why abundance still feels empty.

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When this classic work was first published in 1976, its central tenet--more is not necessarily better--placed it in direct conflict with mainstream thought in economics. Within a few years, however, this apparently paradoxical claim was gaining wi...

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