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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben • 3 highlights
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ecological economist Peter Victor
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
E.F. Schumacher • 5 highlights
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Data on units of apparel from AAFA (2008)
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
In 1991 Americans bought an average of thirty-four dresses, pairs of pants, sweaters, shirts, underwear, and other items. In 1996 that number had risen to forty-one. By 2007 per-person consumption had soared to sixty-seven items. American consumers were purchasing a new piece of clothing every 5.4 days.