The overspent American: an interview with Juliet Schor.(economist and...

Multinational Monitor;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Netherlands. Schor is the author most recently of The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer, and previously...Dream. Multinational Monitor: When you talk about the Overspent American, what do you mean by over-spent? Juliet Schor: I mean...

The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  April 1, 1999 ;     201 words ...The Overspent American: Up,scaling, Down.shifting, and the New Consumer, by Juliet B. Schor. Both fascinating and disquieting, this book takes the temperature...

Born to Buy

Dollars & Sense;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......books The Overworked American and The Overspent American. In her new book, Born to Buy: The...study of consumer culture in The Overspent American? JS: The second book took up a question...see family incomes growing. So The Overspent American is about the social pressures to...

Our bankrupt lifestyle

The Boston Globe;  June 14, 1998 ;     697 words ......words of economist Juliet Schor's new book title, "The Overspent American." In a chilling and convincing argument, Schor says that...Overworked American," about long hours, led logically to "The Overspent American," about high bills. In one company she studied, the average...

GIVE IT A REST

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  April 19, 1999 ;     611 words ......financial status of families. In Juliet B. Schor's book, The Overspent American, (Basic Books, $25) every hour of television watching reduces...America (www.tvfa.org); The American Academy of Pediatrics; The Overspent American.

`Competitive consuming' keeps us all in debt

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 14, 1998 ;     692 words ......is, in the words of Juliet Schor's new book title, "The Overspent American." In a chilling and convincing argument, economist Schor...Overworked American," about long hours, led logically to "The Overspent American," about high bills. In one company she studied, the average...

Overworked, overspent Americans: Consumers aren't solely responsible for...

Charleston Daily Mail;  June 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ......words of economist Juliet Schor's new book title, "The Overspent American." In a chilling and convincing argument, Schor says that...Overworked American," about long hours, led logically to "The Overspent American," about high bills. In one company she studied, the average...

GIVE IT A REST AMERICANS TURN OFF THEIR TVS FOR A WEEK!

Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  April 19, 1999 ;     609 words ......financial status of families. In Juliet B. Schor's book, The Overspent American, (Basic Books, $25) every hour of television watching reduces...America (www.tvfa.org); The American Academy of Pediatrics; The Overspent American.

HOME ECONOMICS JULIET SCHOR, AUTHOR OF THE OVERSPENT AMERICAN, PRACTICES...

The Boston Globe;  July 9, 2000 ;     500 words ......1950. So why would Schor, an economics professor at Harvard and chronicler of the "new consumerism" in books such as The Overspent American, own an appliance straight out of a glossy photo shoot? "Over the past few years, we've focused on making our home ecologically...

Want not, want not

The Boston Globe;  May 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ...THE OVERSPENT AMERICAN Upscaling, Downshifting, and...Juliet B. Schor, who in "The Overspent American" argues that we are financially...these and other ideas in "The Overspent American," because anybody who picks...

Myth and Tradition

Talk of the Nation (NPR);  December 23, 1998 ;     700+ words ......of The Overworked American and The Overspent American. Welcome to the program. JULIET SCHOR...THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN AND THE OVERSPENT AMERICAN : Thank you, Ray. SUAREZ: Our number...ago to Juliet Schor's world of the overspent American who is in part overworked because...

CONSUMER CULTURE KEEPS AMERICANS IN DEBT.(EDITORIAL)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  June 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ......words of economist Juliet Schor's new book title, The Overspent American. In a chilling and convincing argument, Schor says that...Overworked American, about long hours, led logically to The Overspent American, about high bills. In one company she studied, the average...

FOR INFORMATION

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 5, 1998 ;     50 words ...Here are some information sources for those interested in cutting back: Books The Overspent American by Juliet B. Schor (Basic Books). Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin (Penguin). The Simple Living Guide by...

KEEPING FIT; Training schedule for a fall road race

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  September 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ......strength training session. Wednesday is a slower paced run of between four and five miles...mile cool-down jog. Saturday is another slower paced run of between four and five miles...strength training session. Wednesday is a slower paced run of between 4.5 and 5.5 miles. Thursday...

NEW BOOKS.(LIFE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  June 18, 1998 ;     240 words ...At the bookstore: A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR, by Jewel ($15). The singer's first collection of poetry. THE OVERSPENT AMERICAN: UPSCALING, DOWNSHIFTING, AND THE NEW CONSUMER, by Juliet B. Schor ($25). Author of the The Overworked American explores why so...