The harried leisure class / Staffan Burenstam Linder.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1970.Description: viii, 182 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0231033028
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.5/7
LOC classification:
  • HB 199 .B84 1970
Contents:
Chapter I. The increasing scarcity of time -- Chapter II. The disappearance of idleness -- Chapter III. Work time -- Chapter IV. The decline of service in the service economy -- Chapter V. Short cuts in private and public services -- Chapter VI. The rationale of growing irrationality -- Chapter VII. The acceleration of consumption -- Chapter VIII. Culture time -- Chapter IX. Savings and the allocation of time -- Chapter X. Will we reach a consumption maximum? -- Chapter XI. The period of decadence -- Chapter XII. Economic ultimates
Summary: "[The book] argues with scholarly sophistication but popular appeal that added leisure time has not created idyllic idleness or the problem of finding things to do; with so many mass-produced pleasure items, good-time services, and amusement activities competing to fill those extra hours, the harried consumer is overwhelmed to the point of 'pleasure blindness,' and leisurely enjoyment is becoming a lost art. With gentle sarcasm and telling accuracy, Linder derides follies like eating and making love on the run ('less time is devoted to both preparation and saw oring'), and laments the time-saving substitution of mapping pictures for absorbing a scene, of large banquets and cocktail parties for intimate get-togethers, and of convenient early marriages for the time-consuming process of extended search." -- from Kirkus review
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HB 171.5 .M55 1973 Economics : HB 179 .L35 An outline of political economy : HB 179 .P7 L33 1963 Political economy : HB 199 .B84 1970 The harried leisure class / HB 201 .R6 The economics of imperfect competition / HB 201 .S7 1931 An introduction to the theory of value : HB 236.U5 .B55 1942 Parity, parity, parity /

Includes mathematical appendix showing that "The main arguments presented in this essay can be formalized within some simple mathematical models." (page 147)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-175) and index.

Chapter I. The increasing scarcity of time -- Chapter II. The disappearance of idleness -- Chapter III. Work time -- Chapter IV. The decline of service in the service economy -- Chapter V. Short cuts in private and public services -- Chapter VI. The rationale of growing irrationality -- Chapter VII. The acceleration of consumption -- Chapter VIII. Culture time -- Chapter IX. Savings and the allocation of time -- Chapter X. Will we reach a consumption maximum? -- Chapter XI. The period of decadence -- Chapter XII. Economic ultimates

"[The book] argues with scholarly sophistication but popular appeal that added leisure time has not created idyllic idleness or the problem of finding things to do; with so many mass-produced pleasure items, good-time services, and amusement activities competing to fill those extra hours, the harried consumer is overwhelmed to the point of 'pleasure blindness,' and leisurely enjoyment is becoming a lost art. With gentle sarcasm and telling accuracy, Linder derides follies like eating and making love on the run ('less time is devoted to both preparation and saw oring'), and laments the time-saving substitution of mapping pictures for absorbing a scene, of large banquets and cocktail parties for intimate get-togethers, and of convenient early marriages for the time-consuming process of extended search." -- from Kirkus review

Translation from Swedish.

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