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Welcome to the enhanced edition of Affluenza! Each chapter of this updated third edition features scenes from the popular national PBS specials Affluenza and Escape from Affluenza, co-produced by Affluenza co-author John de Graaf and hosted by National Public Radios Scott Simon. This iconic book shows how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague. In the enhanced edition youll see hilarious skits including the frightening original diagnosis of affluenza and the shocking surrender of the Joneses. Youll meet experts and hear from ordinary people about how affluenza has affected their lives and what they are doing about it. Youll see victims of shopping fever and swollen expectations as they roam through the affluenza hot zones of tourist-destination shopping malls, watch in horror as marketers plan the manipulation of children, take a quick trip through the history of this dreaded disease, and see its often invisible but terrible consequences made visible. But its not all gloom and doomfar from it. Youll also drop in on a simplicity circle (affluholics anonymous!), wander through a magical marsh where you come out enriched and your wallet is still as full as when you left home, and share the life of an urban family who is beating the bug! The authors also trace the role overconsumption played in the Great Recession, discuss new ways to measure social health and success (such as the Gross Domestic Happiness index), and offer policy recommendations to make our society more simplicity-friendly. Remember that nine out of ten doctors recommend this book as the cure for affluenza! Happy reading andhappy viewing! There are a total of 23 videos spanning 39:36 minute. File size: 379.7 MB

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This witty yet hard-hitting book provides evidence of the social problems caused by the American obsession with acquiring stuff and proposes solutions for living more sustainably. Highly recommended.

Library Journal

Now here is a good reason to go shopping! The wonderful book that made consumerism the issue it should be, Affluenza, is here in a third, fully updated edition. The story of the Joneses, of keeping up with the Joneses fame, is itself worth the very modest price you will have to pay to enjoy this classic, now new and improved.

James Gustave Speth, author of America the Possible and former director, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

If ever there was a right book at the right time, Affluenza is it. This country needs this book.

Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, author of Plan B 4.0 and Full Planet, Empty Plates

Affluenza makes us take a hard look at how the drive to excessive consumerism is personally, socially, and environmentally disastrous and then takes us on an exciting path to deeper happiness and satisfaction. It is a must-read for all who strive to create more healthy, just, and secure communities.

Anthony D. Cortese, former Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and founder, American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment

De Graaf, Wann, and Naylor have achieved something special with Affluenza. They take an unflinching look at the train wreck of Americas consumer culture and then extricate us from the wreckage by providing practical policies and achievable actions for building a healthier society. Affluenza is also a great read; it contains the hopeful ideas we need to reach a livable future.

Rob Dietz, coauthor of Enough Is Enough

The programs offered at the end of the book work on many levels, from making personal choices to changing the rules of the game to reward all actions moving us toward a thriving, just, and sustainable future. So enjoy! This is a great book about a tough-to-face set of problems.

Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life and author of Blessing the Hands That Feed Us

Affluenza is an engagingly conversational, thought-provoking look at where we have perverted the American dream. Though the nature of books like these is to preach to the converted, Affluenza offers enough support to the arguments and enough depth to the solutions to have a good chance of reaching the unconvinced.

Detroit Free Press

AFFLUENZA

AFFLUENZA

HOW OVERCONSUMPTION IS KILLING USAND HOW WE CAN FIGHT BACK

THIRD EDITION

John de Graaf

David Wann

Thomas H. Naylor

Affluenza Copyright 2014 by John de Graaf David Wann Thomas H Naylor All - photo 1

Affluenza

Copyright 2014 by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor
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Third Edition
Paperback print edition ISBN 978-1-60994-927-3
PDF e-book ISBN 978-1-60994-928-0
IDPF e-book ISBN 978-1-60994-929-7

2013-1

Interior design and composition: Seventeenth Street Studios

Cover design: Mark van Bronkhorst, MvB Design

Copyeditor: Karen Seriguchi

Proofreader: Laurie Dunne

Indexer: Richard Evans

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Photo, : The Surrender of the Joneses, Francine Strickwerda

In memory of Dr. Henry J. Frundt (19402010)

In loving memory of Marjorie Southworth Wann (19262012)

CONTENTS
FOREWORD

When Affluenza was first published in 2001, its diagnosis of the sickness in consumer society and its prescriptions for the cure stood in marked contrast to the nations prevailing optimism. The American economy was at a postwar peak. The stock market had tripled in the previous decade, topping the once-unimaginable 10,000 level. Soaring housing values were making ordinary homeowners rich (on paper, at least). The first dot-com boom was minting young millionaires and billionaires in the high-tech entrepreneurial class.

Then the World Trade Center attacks sent the stock market plunging, triggering a recession and exposing the hollowness of a system whose leaders advised us that the patriotic response to terrorism was to go shopping. In the years following, the dot-com boom went bust, and the near-collapse of corrupt financial institutions plunged millions of homeowners into debt and foreclosure. Today, even as the economists tell us the Great Recession has ended, the real unemployment ratethose without work, those who need more work, and those who have stopped lookingremains scandalously high. The Occupy movement has sharpened awareness of the inherent inequities of an economy in which the wealthiest get richer and richer while most of the rest of us work longer hours with less job security, health insurance, and retirement security just to keep our heads above water.

But if Affluenza was ahead of its time, more than ever its time is now.

From book groups to congregations to classrooms, Affluenza has become an enduring classicnot only for its insight into the emptiness and unsustainability of a system based on ever-expanding consumption but also for boldly pointing a way out. Its ultimately hopeful messagethat it is possible to build a society based on not more but better, not selfishness but sharing, not competition but communityhas inspired millions to rethink their lives and question the status quo. Its very title has become a part of the language, an indispensable tool for describing the ills of a society where, to paraphrase the personal-finance guru Dave Ramsey, we work too much to buy things we dont need with money we dont have to impress people we dont even know. It has played an immeasurable role in informing my own work on

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