All Consuming
Published on 25. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-14-102941-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Stabbing at battle of Ikea' Sun
'Most expensive house has GBP390m price tag' Daily Telegraph
'Financier runs up GBP36,000 bar bill' Independent
Diamond-encrusted phones, waiting lists for handbags, 7-star hotels - in the summer of 2007, the UK economy finally reached its giddy peak. But it wasn't just celebrities and bankers wanting to spend, spend, spend. Whipping out our cheap credit cards, the whole nation developed one obsessive, unsustainable habit: shopping.
Now the cash has dried up and we've consumed our way to financial disaster. But were rich times really happy times? And if shopping got us in to this mess, should we really be encouraged to shop our way out of it?
With finances in flux, now is our chance to break this all-consuming cycle. Offering everyday ways to start kicking the habit, Neal Lawson shows us how to put the basket down for good, and why we'll be happier for it.
'Most expensive house has GBP390m price tag' Daily Telegraph
'Financier runs up GBP36,000 bar bill' Independent
Diamond-encrusted phones, waiting lists for handbags, 7-star hotels - in the summer of 2007, the UK economy finally reached its giddy peak. But it wasn't just celebrities and bankers wanting to spend, spend, spend. Whipping out our cheap credit cards, the whole nation developed one obsessive, unsustainable habit: shopping.
Now the cash has dried up and we've consumed our way to financial disaster. But were rich times really happy times? And if shopping got us in to this mess, should we really be encouraged to shop our way out of it?
With finances in flux, now is our chance to break this all-consuming cycle. Offering everyday ways to start kicking the habit, Neal Lawson shows us how to put the basket down for good, and why we'll be happier for it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
None
Weight
174 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-102941-2 (9780141029412)
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Neal Lawson is a political commentator. In between time spent shopping and thinking about shopping he writes regularly for the Guardian and the New Statesman and often appears on the radio and television. He was formerly an adviser to Gordon Brown and before that was a trade union researcher. He is chair of the fast-growing pressure group Compass and managing editor of the policy journal Renewal. In 2001 he co-edited The Progress Century (Palgrave).