Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Acute economic crisis may cure the nation's chronic materialism

Acute economic crisis may cure the nation's chronic materialism

David Lazarus, Consumer Confidential October 26, 2008

EXCERPT

"Our whole economy is designed to convince people that they want more," said David Colander, an economics professor at Middlebury College in Vermont. "Nobody is asking the big question: How much of a consumer society do we really want to be?"

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus26-2008oct26,0,1269281.column

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