| Description |
1 online resource (x, 233 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Missing the forest and most of the trees: what's useful and what's not in current conversations -- Some explanations -- Social change and continuity in U.S. history -- Triumph of the market -- Economic life: winning the rat race -- Civil life: cool iPods, rolling stops, and fighting dads -- Family life: frenzy and atomization -- Resetting the moral compass. |
| Summary |
Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable--at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface. From a hospital patient reduced to a balance sheet to a parent working such long hours that he misses dinner, Brueggemann argues that market thinking has permeated every corner of our lives. In the pursuit of more and better, relationships erode, to the detriment of indi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Moral conditions.
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United States. |
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Moral conditions. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Economic conditions. |
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United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brueggemann, John, 1965- Rich, free, and miserable. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010 9781442200937 (DLC) 2010011252 (OCoLC)591770415 |
| ISBN |
9781442200951 (electronic) |
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1442200952 (electronic) |
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9781442200937 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1442200936 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612713712 |
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