The Hunger for More: Searching for Values in an Age of Greed

Shames, Laurence

ISBN 10: 0812916565 / ISBN 13: 9780812916560

Published by Timeless Books, Spokane, Washington, U.S.A., 1989

About this Item

First edtion, second printing, white and gray hard boards, very minor edge bumps, silver gilt print on spine in as new condition, former owners private sticker fp, underlinning and marks throughout, otherwise clean and tight, 291pp, Dj with minor bumps, shelf rubs, sticker on spine, otherwise not price clipped and useful, pictures on request and with our pleasure.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hunger for More: Searching for Values in an Age of Greed
• Publisher: Timeless Books, Spokane, Washington, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812916565
• ISBN 13: 9780812916560
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Instructional
  • Reference
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Starting with the premise that America is as rich as it is going to get, the author argues that it is time to redefine success in other than material terms

Reviews

Shames ( The Big Time ) defines salient features of the dominant ethic of the 1980s: worship of money and people who have money, treating one's job or career with the utmost seriousness, a selfish credo of self-interest, leisure as a form of recuperation. But as society fractures into a workaholic, moneyed elite and the underpaid or underemployed masses, it is becoming clear, he argues, that "America has gotten about as rich as it's going to get." Swinging between sharp insights and glib generalizations, this breezy, journalistic epitaph for the '80s suggests that a new ethic of service and humane values may "fill the bubble" created by the swelling poverty of the so-called middle class. Former ethics columnist for Esquire , Shames is adept at skewering the much-touted entrepreneurial boom, workaholics, "academic vocationalism" and the "sleaze wave" of questionable business deals and government scandals. He is less successful at explaining how a new ethic might work, and why peole would adopt it. First serial to Financial Enterprise, New York Times and Best of Business; author tour.
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