Lebergott Pursuing Happiness

American Consumers in the Twentieth Century
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6326-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 161, 204 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lebergott, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figure

Preface

Pt. I Economic Well-Being

1 Consumers and Their Critics 3

2 Happiness and Economic Welfare 12

3 Consumer Choice: Advertising 16

4 Consumer Choice: Externalities, Varieties 21

5 Consumption Inequality 28

6 Immortality and the Budget Constraint 34

7 Per Capita Consumption and the Angel of the Lord 41

8 Women's Work: Home to Market 50

9 Work, Overwork, and Consumer Spending 61

10 More Goods: The Twentieth Century 69

Pt. II Major Trends, 1900-1990

Food 77

Tobacco 84

Alcohol 87

Clothing 90

Shoes 93

Housing 95

Fuel 104

Domestic Service 108

Household Operation 110

Water 117

Lighting 119

Health 121

Transport 128

Recreation 135

Welfare 140

Religion 142

Postscript 145

Appendix A: Personal Consumption Table 147

Appendix B: Estimating Details 165

Works Cited 171

Index 187