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Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 189-193

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780812202724
DOI
10.9783/9780812202724
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13198343 bytes)
Pages
232\231
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 20:36:08

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"How the Tenth Commandment (that's the one about coveting) became extinct is a tale of how the emotional style of this country mutated within the golden years of the nascent consumer economy, which Susan J. Matt . . . defines as the period between 1890 and 1930. She explains that we couldn't be a nation of consumers until we were given public license to envy."—New York Times "How the Tenth Commandment (that's the one about coveting) became extinct is a tale of how the emotional style of this country mutated within the golden years of the nascent consumer economy, which Susan J. Matt . . . defines as the period between 1890 and 1930. She explains that we couldn't be a nation of consumers until we were given public license to envy."—New York Times

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