Affluenza: When too much is never enough
Allen & Unwin, $24.95 pb, 224 pp
Society
Keeping up with the Joneses
by Amanda McLeod •
Since the early 1990s Australians have been infected with ‘affluenza’ – a virus of over-consumption that Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss characterise as ‘the bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses’, a growth fetish and an ‘epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the Australian dream’.
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Affluenza: When too much is never enough
by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss
Allen & Unwin, $24.95 pb, 224 pp
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