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Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relatio...

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The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

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William Stanley JevonsThe Theory of Political Economy

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of l...

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The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he becam...

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Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying...

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George Bernard ShawThe Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy

The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will ...

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We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which former...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or e...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which use...

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Jean BaudrillardThe Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acr...

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A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ...

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in orde...

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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

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