Luxury fever : weighing the cost of excess /

Frank, Robert H.

Luxury fever : weighing the cost of excess / Robert H. Frank. - Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2010. - 326p. ; 25 cm.

Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Robert Frank presents a fresh look at today's conspicuous consumption and its enormous societal cost - and explains how a simple change in our incentives would enable us to live longer, healthier and more satisfying lives.

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Consumption (Economics)--United States.
Wealth--United States.
Consumer behavior--United States.

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