Luxury and waste of life

E. J. (Edward Johns) Urwick

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ANDLUXURY WASTE OF LIFE "Do seenot that individual life is and can beyou your only secured at the continual sacrifice of other lives ? "And that therefore can hold it on condition thatyou only " are in turn to sacrifice it to others ?youryou ready EDWARD "TowardsCARPENTER, Democracy." LUXURY AND WASTE OF LIFE ' URWICKE. J. M 1908 LONDON: M. DENT & CO,J. BEDFORD STREET W.C.29 reservedAll rights CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . ix-xxviiiPages CHAPTER I Difficulties of definition Current about opinions luxury A definition: and luxurious ex-provisional luxury determined reference to the in-penditure by average -come of the . . I 1 8community Pages CHAPTER II The Luxuriouspsychological argument against luxury considered in relation to actual andexpenditure possible amounts of satisfaction . . Pages 19-41 CHAPTER III The economic considered in relationargument Luxury to and work . .wealth, trade, Pages 42-75 CHAPTER IV Details of luxurious The amount of wasteexpenditure considered in relation to the amount of money spent Pages 76-101 vii 426521 viii CONTENTS CHAPTER V Details of luxurious The amountexpenditure (continued) of waste considered ofin relation to different kinds different kinds of andconsumption, goods consumed, different kinds of satisfactions or of desires satisfied 102-128 Pages CHAPTER VI The defence of . . .luxury Pages 129-168 CHAPTER VII .The limits of individual expenditure Pages 169-191 CHAPTER VIII The of income . .

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• Luxury

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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ANDLUXURY WASTE OF LIFE"Do seenot that individual life is and can beyou your only
secured at the continual sacrifice of other lives ?
"And that therefore can hold it on condition thatyou only
"
are in turn to sacrifice it to others ?youryou ready
EDWARD "TowardsCARPENTER, Democracy."LUXURY
AND
WASTE OF LIFE
'
URWICKE. J.
M
1908
LONDON: M. DENT & CO,J.
BEDFORD STREET W.C.29reservedAll rights