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Lighten Up

From: Curing Affluenza

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Chapter 3 explores productivity between the public and private sectors, discussing topics including wasted resources, ‘economic activity’, cycles of production, the ‘Washington Consensus’, phones and communication, cars, car ownership, and infrastructure, renting or buying, vacation and paid time off, alternatives to waste such as sharing, repairing and reselling, the American ‘lawn’, and except from Professor John Quiggin.

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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.