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- catalog abstract ""According to commonly repeated reports, wages and personal incomes have stagnated in the United States over the past 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 past twenty-five years, and this fantastic growth is responsible for a variety of negative social consequences." "The problems the authors attribute to the growth in wealth include employment issues such as job selection and security, family issues such as illegitimacy and divorce, rising crime trends, educational issues such as sluggish SAT scores, and others. Further, the authors discuss how wealth has allowed Americans to create problems out of thin air, including many of the supposed environmental dangers, health care expenditures, and safety regulation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11217774.
- catalog contributor b11217775.
- catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""According to commonly repeated reports, wages and personal incomes have stagnated in the United States over the past 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 past twenty-five years, and this fantastic growth is responsible for a variety of negative social consequences." "The problems the authors attribute to the growth in wealth include employment issues such as job selection and security, family issues such as illegitimacy and divorce, rising crime trends, educational issues such as sluggish SAT scores, and others. Further, the authors discuss how wealth has allowed Americans to create problems out of thin air, including many of the supposed environmental dangers, health care expenditures, and safety regulation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (215-243) and index.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. Affluent thinking -- ch. 2. Message of economic despair -- ch. 3. Myth of stagnation -- ch. 4. Stagnation's last defense -- ch. 5. Affluence, employment, and education -- ch. 6. Affluence and family problems -- ch. 7. Affluence and politics -- ch. 8. Combatting wealth's negative effects.".
- catalog extent "xii, 254 p. :".
- catalog identifier "081333618X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "339.2/0973 21".
- catalog subject "HC110.W4 G58 1999".
- catalog subject "Income distribution United States.".
- catalog subject "Wealth United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. Affluent thinking -- ch. 2. Message of economic despair -- ch. 3. Myth of stagnation -- ch. 4. Stagnation's last defense -- ch. 5. Affluence, employment, and education -- ch. 6. Affluence and family problems -- ch. 7. Affluence and politics -- ch. 8. Combatting wealth's negative effects.".
- catalog title "Spoiled rotten : affluence, anxiety, and social decay in America / Brian Goff, Arthur A. Fleisher III.".
- catalog type "text".