Cover of The overspent American

The overspent American

by Juliet Schor

1998 253 pages eng

Juliet Schor presents original research showing how keeping up with the Joneses has evolved from keeping pace with one's neighbors and others in a similar social set to keeping up with a referent group that may include co-workers who earn five times one's own salary or television "friends" whose lif…

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