Book of Donmon Teith

Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans ha

The study of consumption has never seriously examined the role of leisure. This ambitious, agenda-setting study, provides the most in-depth examination of the r

Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking a

That the contemporary lords of the manor, the businessmen who own the means of production, have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices o

Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circums