This is a review of Avner Offer’s The Challenge of Affluence: Self Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950. It appeared in the Business History Review vol. 81 no. 2. The book is well worth a read.
Charles Kenny
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Charles Kenny writes about global development — what’s working, what isn’t, and how the world can do better. An economist who spent fifteen years at the World Bank, he is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.
Charles Kenny 