The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer. From: The Progressive | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: Buell, John | COPYRIGHT 1998 The Progressive, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer by Juliet Schor Basic Books. 253 pages. $25.00.

American consumerism has always had its critics--from Thorstein Veblen to T.S. Eliot, from John Kenneth Galbraith to William Bennett. In addition to the economic and cultural critics, ecologists have argued in the last two decades that our acquisitiveness is on a collision course with the environment.

Juliet Schor, the author of the influential...

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