Glickman, Lawrence, 57, 92, 118, 129, 133–134, 195, 198
Inflation, 72, 112, 186, 259, 261
Glyn, Andrew, 229, 255
Information and communications technology, 224, 227
Godbey, Geofrey, 52–53
Installment buying, 68–70
Golden Age (of capitalism), 8, 24, 46, 84, 89, 218; and profit rates, 59; and the purchasing power paradigm, 158; the decline of, 226, 229, 258, 260–261
Isaacs, Nathan, 192
Jacobs, Meg, 12, 38, 143, 158, 207, 252
Goldin, Claudia, 46, 51, 66
Kahneman, Daniel, 15, 18–19, 105–108, 120
Gompers, Samuel, 131, 134, 171
Kallet, Arthur, 154, 204
Gordon, David, 24
Karpik, Lucien, 178
Gordon, John F., 238
Great Depression, 67, 69, 72, 87, 238, 271; and Keynes, 1, 25; and consumer spending, 67, 139–140, 184–185; and the consumer movement, 195, 208; and planned obsolescence, 227–228
Kellogg, W. W., 59, 62
Kennedy, John F., 195
Kettering, Charles, 167
Gregory, Paul. M., 230–231
Keynes, John Maynard, 1–6, 20, 78, 258, 269, 271; on the propensity to consume, 13, 68, 88, 98; on animal spirits, 87; on collective practices, 114.
Griliches, Zvi, 45
Kimeldorf, Howard, 131, 133
Guest, Robert, 136, 137, 143
Knight, Frank, 6, 13
Guiltinan, Joseph, 231
Knights of Labor, 131
Gutman, Herbert, 50–51, 57
Knowledge economy, 5
Hamilton, Walter, 152, 191–192
Harvey Balls, 211–213
Hedonic treadmill, 37, 265
Labor process, 20, 51, 105; and alienation, 128, 138; intensification of, 23–24, 51, 174; and Taylorism, 170
Hoarding, 72, 120
Lancaster, Kelvin, 30, 31, 215
Hobsbawm, Eric, 50, 57, 81, 128, 129
Lansing, Michigan, 137, 145
Hochschild, Arlie, 60–62
Layard, Richard, 15
Home Economics Association, 168, 199, 200
Lears, Jackson, 187
Lehman, Herman F., 238, 240
Homeownership, 73–74, 100
Lewis, Anthony, 251
Hoover, Herbert, 154, 161, 162, 163, 184
Life cycle hypothesis, 65–66, 110
Hotchkiss, George Burton, 181
Life evaluation, 18
Hunnicut, Benjamin, 59, 60, 62, 132
Life expectancy, 63, 65, 66, 68
Hurleigh, Robert F., 241
Hyperbolic discounting, 34–36, 64–66, 105, 107–109
Locke, John, 195
London, Bernard, 227, 228, 232
Lord, Harry, 161
Los Angeles, 175, 233
Implied warranty, 151, 153, 168, 188, 195, 217–218; origins of, 192–193
Lury, Celia, 39
Lynd, Robert, 181, 184
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 131
Lynds, Helen and Robert, 69, 73, 136–143, 145–147, 163, 164
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