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larrys's review
3.0
I listened to an interview with Juliet Schor on Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw on Radio New Zealand in 2010.
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sun/sun-20100704-1005-Juliet_Schor-048.mp3
So when I saw the book at the library I decided to read it.
Although it had been a while since I listened to the interview, I think I enjoyed the interview more than reading the book. It's quite a hard read I thought, partly because of my lack of economics training, partly because it's not structured/subheaded in a particularly easy-to-read fashion. At a sentence level it's not hard at all.
It's nice to hear an alternative for the future, one which doesn't include either austerity or spectacular ecological malfunction. I think we should try living as Juliet Schor suggests.
Interestingly, I've been reading quite a few feminist books lately, and I think the Plenitudinal way of living would mean families do much better in this busy Western world.
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sun/sun-20100704-1005-Juliet_Schor-048.mp3
So when I saw the book at the library I decided to read it.
Although it had been a while since I listened to the interview, I think I enjoyed the interview more than reading the book. It's quite a hard read I thought, partly because of my lack of economics training, partly because it's not structured/subheaded in a particularly easy-to-read fashion. At a sentence level it's not hard at all.
It's nice to hear an alternative for the future, one which doesn't include either austerity or spectacular ecological malfunction. I think we should try living as Juliet Schor suggests.
Interestingly, I've been reading quite a few feminist books lately, and I think the Plenitudinal way of living would mean families do much better in this busy Western world.
yvejr's review
4.0
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/02/06/an-interview-with-juliet-schor-author-of-plenitude/
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