Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 164, 191
Strasser, Susan, 92, 181, 182
Roseborough, Howard, 146
Subsistence, 47, 55, 96–97, 102, 219, 276
Rosenzweig, Roy, 51, 57, 136
Suburbanization, 74, 139
Summers, Lawrence, 96
Sabel, Charles, 25, 26, 84, 89, 137, 177
Sumptuary laws, 219
Saillard, Yves, 21, 23, 158
Supreme Court, 130
Samuelson, Paul, 29, 234
Sweezy, Paul, 22
San Francisco, 175, 176
Swiencicki, Mark, 119
Savings, 37, 41, 76, 96, 147, 228; as insurance, 43, 55; patterns in the United States, 63–71; and commensuration, 96; and the life-cycle hypothesis, 98; and welfare states, 102–104; and exponential discounting, 108; and social mobility, 147
Taft-Hartley Act, 58
Tarbell, Ida B., 168
Tedlow, Richard, 167, 194
Textile Color Association, 170
Schor, Juliet, 40, 48, 58, 62, 76, 226
Thaler, Richard, 67, 106, 120
Schwartz, Barry, 33
Thompson, E. P., 50, 57, 81, 219
Thompson, George V., 159
Scitovsky, Tibor, 14, 32–33, 64, 76
Time bind, 53, 60, 117
Sears, 184
Sen, Amartya, 15, 16
Underconsumption, 22–24, 26
Sheafer Pens, 189
Uniform Commercial Code, 168–169, 192
Shewhart, A., 162
Uniform Sales Act, 192
Shorter hours movement, 58, 60, 62, 129, 132–133
United Autoworkers Union (UAW), 132, 177
United Kingdom, 75, 232
Simmel, Georg, 263
Unpopular norms, 62–63
Simon, Herbert, 15
Singularities (economic), 178
Value engineering, 223–224
Slade, Giles, 220, 256
Veblen, Thorstein, 36, 220
Snell, Bradford C., 247–249
Social mobility, 3, 142–147
Wachtel, W. W., 186
Social status, 3, 20, 32, 75, 187, 230, 263; as an explanation for consumption, 36–38
Wage slavery, 129, 130, 132, 133
Wagner Act, 58, 90
Social Structures of Accumulation (SSA), 22, 24–26
Warranty, Express, 189
Warranty, Implied, 151, 153, 188, 192–193, 217
Society of Automative Engineers (SAE), 160, 165
Waste, 99, 161–162, 199, 224, 227, 228, 231; and commensuration, 111; calculation of, 240, 250–254, 256
Society for Democratic Students, 220
Sociological jurisprudence, 195
Solow, Robert, 2
Wastemakers, The, 220, 230, 231–232, 240, 250
Sombart, Werner, 36
Weber, Max, 4–6, 109, 270, 278
Standard packages, 146
Weisskopf, Thomas, 24
Stanley, Amy-Dru, 82, 128–129, 130
Welfare state, 26, 55, 102–104, 278, 298
Stevenson, B., 18
Western Chain Grocers Association, 185
Stiglitz, Joseph, 2
Westinghouse, George, 160
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