TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lebergott,Stanley
TI  - Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400863266
AV  - HC110.C6 
U1  - 339.4/7/09730904 20
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economic History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Economics
KW  - Macroeconomics
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Economic Conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - 1945-
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Works Cited; Index
N2  - Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provocative look at what they have chosen to purchase. Stanley Lebergott maintains that the average consumer has behaved more reasonably than many distinguished critics of ""materialism"" have suggested. He sees consumers seeking to make an uncertain and often cruel world into a pleasanter and more convenient place--and, for the most part, succeeding. With refreshing common sense, he reminds us of what many ""luxuries"" have meant, especially for women
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