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Green with Envy: A Whole New Way to Look at Financial (Un)Happiness - Hardcover

Boss, Shira

 
9780446578356: Green with Envy: A Whole New Way to Look at Financial (Un)Happiness
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0446578355 ISBN 13: 9780446578356
Verlag: Business Plus, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Everyone wants to keep up with the Joneses, regardless of income, occupation, or net worth. Our contentment is based on how we measure up to those around us, how close we come to the image we feel compelled to live up to, even when it means putting up a front. But how can anyone make realistic comparisons to others when everyone's personal finances are shrouded in secrecy and shame? We're living in the dark, and it's turning the American dream into an anxiety attack. A tantalizing mix of hard facts and delicious gossip, Green with Envy peers into the lives and checkbooks of our neighbors--from a national politician to a New York City couple to a suburban family--and gives readers what they need to improve their financial well being without touching their bank accounts.

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Shira Boss lives in New York City.

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Freelance journalist Boss performs a real service by putting some of America's financial hangups on trial, charging that "the money taboo"—our good-manners reluctance to discuss what we earn and spend—is "destructive nonsense" that leads to debt and despair. Boss argues that envy ("the only vice warned against in both the Ten Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins") can be good for the economy, but our drive to keep up with our neighbors can be unhealthy. In five case studies, she shows the consequences of maintaining appearances when we can't afford it; the highlight is a chapter in which Boss lives a fantasy by interrogating her seemingly well-off next-door neighbors and getting the real scoop on their savings, income and credit card bills. The scope of the author's reporting is a bit limited—except for one billionaire, her subjects aren't especially socioeconomically diverse—and we never learn whether non-U.S. cultures suffer the same pangs of envy. Worse, her soft concluding chapter tacks toward self-help, offering counsel that's surprisingly platitudinous ("The universe will provide"). Even so, Boss's case for candor is valuable. (May)
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Verlag
Business Plus
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0446578355
ISBN 13 
9780446578356
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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