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Affluenza
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Affluenza
The book ‘Affluenza’ is written by Clive Hamilton. ‘Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough’ is a book that was published in 2005, it describes Western society’s addiction to overconsumption. The authors argue that this situation is exclusive in human history. They analyze how aspiration drives overconsumption, leading to high rates of stress, depression, and obesity.
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Clive Hamilton
Hamilton is an Australian academic who writes public argument rather than scholarship, and the two books come from different decades of it. Affluenza, written with Richard Denniss in 2005, argues that Australians were working harder to buy things that were not making them happier, and…
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