THE PROGRESS PARADOX: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
Gregg Easterbrook, . . Random, $24.95 (376pp) ISBN 978-0-679-46303-0
Easterbrook sees a widespread case of cognitive dissonance in the West: according to Easterbrook, though the typical American's real income has doubled in the past 50 years, the percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "happy" remains where it was half a century ago (oddly, Easterbrook doesn't tell us what that percentage is). Why do so many of us remain discontented, he asks? Is it because now that even the middle classes can afford nearly every conceivable luxury, we have nothing left to look forward to? Easterbrook, a senior editor at the
Reviewed on: 09/22/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 400 pages - 978-0-8129-7303-7
Peanut Press/Palm Reader - 207 pages - 978-1-58836-326-8