Spoiled Rotten: Affluence, Anxiety, and Social Decay in America

by Brian Goff and Arthur A. Fleisher

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According to commonly repeated reports, wages and personal incomes have stagnated in the U.S. over the last twenty-five years for average Americans. A corollary argument asserts that the combination of flat living standards for the masses and rising standards for a privileged few have created a number of social ills. Spoiled Rotten presents a simple and contradictory argument: properly measured standards of material well-being have grown for practically all U.S. residents over the last twenty-five years, and this fantastic growth is responsible for a variety of negative social consequences. }According to commonly repeated reports, wages and personal incomes have...Read more
  • ISBN10 081333618X
  • ISBN13 9780813336183
  • Publish Date 15 April 1999
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 19 September 2001
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Imprint Westview Press Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English