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Tables of Contents for Voluntary Simplicity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
Daniel Doherty
vii
Introduction: Voluntary Simplicity-Psychological Implications, Societal Consequences
1
28
Amitai Etzioni
Part I: Human Wants, Human Goods
1 A Theory of Human Motivation
29
12
A.H. Maslow
2 Wealth and Happiness: A Limited Relationship
41
12
David G. Myers
3 Consuming for Love
53
12
Edward N. Luttwak
4 The Problem of Over-Consumption-Why Economists Don't Get It
65
18
Juliet Schor
5 Achieving Collective Well-Being Through Greater Simplicity: A Simple Proposal
83
18
Robert Frank
Part II: Simplicity Throughout History
6 Early American Simplicity: The Quaker Ethic
101
24
David Shi
7 Simple Needs
125
6
Charles Wagner
8 The Value of Voluntary Simplicity
131
14
Richard B. Gregg
9 Voluntary Simplicity: A Movement Emerges
145
Duane Elgin and Arnold Mitchell
Part III: Critical Perspectives
10 Conspicuous "Simplicity"
175
8
David Brooks
11 The Liberating Role of Consumption and the Myth of Artificially Created Desires
183
10
James B. Twitchell
Notes
193
14
Index
207
2
About the Contributors
209