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Juliet B. Schor

Juliet B. Schor

Juliet B. Schor

Juliet B. Schor is the award-winning author of The Overworked American and The Overspent American. A recognized expert on consumerism, economics, and family studies, she teaches at Boston College and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Excerpt:
Introduction from Born to Buy
Jun 19, 2009
Born to Buy will be released on October 04, 2005 in Trade Paperback
Oct 04, 2005
Born to Buy is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 04, 2005
Born to Buy will be released on October 04, 2005 in
Oct 04, 2005
Born to Buy is now available in
Oct 04, 2005
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Born to Buy
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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Wall Street Journal Online, February 24, 2012
PR-Canada.net, November 29, 2011
...Food. Other recipients include Pulitzer Prize-winner Charlie Savage, television host Jon Stewart and the "Daily Show" cast, economist Juliet B. Schor, linguist Noam Chomsky, and cultural critic Neil Postman...
Bellingham Herald, November 21, 2011
...harming your child. In"Born to Buy," one of the most comprehensive analyses of consumerism in kids, professor Juliet Schor explains that the more kids buy into the commercial culture, the more likely they are to suffer from depression, anxiety,...
WDM, October 11, 2011
...Studies, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA Dr Evert Schoorl, Economist and Director of graduate studies, Groningen University, NETHERLANDS Dr Juliet Schor, Phd Economics, Boston College, USA Dr Molly Scott Cato, Reader in Green Economics, Cardiff School...
Oxfam America, October 10, 2011
...Studies, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA Dr Evert Schoorl, Economist and Director of graduate studies, Groningen University, NETHERLANDS Dr Juliet Schor, Phd Economics, Boston College, USA Dr Molly Scott Cato, Reader in Green Economics, Cardiff School of...
ZNet, July 22, 2011
...Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial “Downsizing” (New York: Free Press, 1996); Juliet Schor, The Overworked American (New York: Basic, 1991); Robert Howard, Brave New Workplace (New York: Penguin, 1986...
Wall Street Journal Online, February 24, 2012
Mothering, February 18, 2012
...Audrey D. Brashich (Walker Books, 2006) Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet B. Schor (Scribner, 2005) Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne (Free Press, 2000)...
Tikkun Magazine, February 10, 2012
...Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture. Alvin Rosenfeld and Nicole Wise. The Overscheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap. Juliet B. Schor. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. Barry Schwartz. The...
World Development Movement, October 7, 2011
...for Advanced Studies, University of Vienna, AUSTRIADr Evert Schoorl, Economist and Director of graduate studies, Groningen University, NETHERLANDSDr Juliet Schor, Phd Economics, Boston College, USADr Molly Scott Cato, Reader in Green Economics, Cardiff...
Monoskop/log, July 27, 2011
...History of the United States, explores the American Dream and exposes the myth of the “good war”; economist Juliet Schor, author of Born to Buy and The Overspent American, explains why Americans are willing to sacrifice quality of life to attain...
Monoskop/log, July 27, 2011
...History of the United States, explores the American Dream and exposes the myth of the “good war”; economist Juliet Schor, author of Born to Buy and The Overspent American, explains why Americans are willing to sacrifice quality of life to attain...