Offer, Avner.

The challenge of affluence self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 - Oxford Oxford University Press 2006 - xviii, 454 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-444) and index.

Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including family breakdown, addiction, mental instability, crime, obesity, inequality, economic insecurity, and declining trust.

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Wealth--Social aspects--United States.

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