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A Good Dose of Materialism Helps a Bad Case of Affluenza

From: Curing Affluenza

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Chapter 2 examines our current culture of convenience, discussing topics including consuming and producing, credit cards and credit card debt, consumerism (the love of buying things) verses materialism (the love of things themselves), advertising, materialism as a driver of economic change, environmental problems from over consumption and waste, and an excerpt from Craig Bennett.

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Richard Denniss

Richard Denniss is chief economist of the Australia Institute and the author of Econobabble. He writes for the Monthly, the Canberra Times, and the Australian Financial Review.