More is More

[Mark Kohut]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-15/visualizing-wealth-nations-over-2000-years

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:04 AM, jody boy <jodys.gone2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Deborah Cohen on Frank Trentmann's" :
>
> "Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the
> Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First:"
>
> In the NY Review:
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/05/25/consumer-society-more-is-more/
>
>
> "Just where and when the impetus toward material acquisition
> originated, though, has been a matter of debate...
>
> What, then, about the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth-century
> Golden Age, when even the maid had paintings in her room? Although
> Trentmann criticizes the energy that’s been devoted to proving the
> origin of consumerism, he nonetheless agrees with those scholars who
> have pinpointed a qualitative and quantitative change in consumption
> in northwestern Europe, particularly the Netherlands and England, in
> the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries..."
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20170524/80f30fe9/attachment.html>