The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification by Paul Roberts

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

Paul Roberts

320 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics psychology sociology informative reflective slow-paced

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Five years after the Great Recession, we must confront an unhappy truth: a high-tech, high-speed, consumer economy engineered to provide maximum power to individuals is destroying our capacity to move forward as a society. Even as rapidly advancin...

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