Consumption (Economics) Archives

Consumption (Economics)

The Melancholy of Anatomy

By Wendell Berry, from Our Only World, out this month from Counterpoint. Berry’s essay “Faustian Economics” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

They have more money

by Doug Gollan,

Breaking the Chain

by Barry C. Lynn,

The antitrust case against Wal-Mart

Yellow brick road

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Wages of depression

by Walter Russell Mead,

Nuclear power’s Faustian bargain

by Erazim V. Kohák,

Brief reviews

by J. M.,

Fooling with the budget

by Tom Bethell,

How Congress causes inflation

How conspicuous is your consumption?

by Harper’s Staff,

Make mine cash

by Susan Witty,

Hey, big spender

by Arthur M. Louis,