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The Overworked American

Juliet Schor ยท 1992

Michael Hobbes recommends it because it offers an influential perspective on why extra productivity turned into consumption rather than leisure.

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A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.

โ€œThere's this economist, Juliette Shore, who studies this and wrote a very influential book in 1992 called The Overworked American.โ€

Why: It offers an influential perspective on why extra productivity turned into consumption rather than leisure.

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