The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook - Textbook - Hardcover - 2003 - from BookTown USA and Biblio.com

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Life gets better, but people get unhappier--this is the conundrum that Gregg Easterbrook, a senior editor of the New Republic, examines. Though, materially, most do "have it better" than their parents' generation, levels of happiness and life satisfaction are falling, as evidenced by the prevalence of depression. In exploring the paradox, the author identifies some trends in human thought that may be contributing to the problem, including two he terms "abundance denial" and "auto-grumbling."

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The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse

by Easterbrook, Gregg

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Book description: Random House, 2003. Pages are clean and tight.. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Good to Very Good.

Bookseller: BookTown USA (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 4011166
Format/binding: Hardcover
Book condition: Good to Very Good
Jacket condition: Good to Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679463038
ISBN 13: 9780679463030
Publisher: Random House
Date published: 2003
Pages: 376
Size: 5.75 x 8.5 x 1 inches
LCCN: HM891.E27 2003
Dewey: 303.44
Weight: 1 pounds
Keywords: PROGRESS QUALITY LIFE PESSIMISM HISTORY

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