Limits to Satisfaction: An Essay on the Problem of Needs and Commodities
ISBN: 9780773561922
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Raw materials; Supply and demand; Commodity control;

At a time when the supply of resources is a problem, William Leiss analyses demand and consumption. Why do we need so much? Does the ability to choose from such a wide range of commodities give us more satisfaction? Why do we accept being pushed into buying products about which we know little because they promise to give us a particular characteristic - freshness, happiness, sex appeal?

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William Leiss is professor emeritus in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University and author of several books on climate issues, most recently Canada and Climate Change.


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