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What Do We Want?
Mussey, Henry Raymond | February 6, 1924 issue

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This article focuses on the book "A Theory of Consumption," by Hazel Kyrk. Miss Hazel Kyrk has written a 300-page Hart Schaffuer and Marx book to tell, and probably she has succeeded about as well as anyone can in the present rudimentary stage of social psychology. She concludes, unflatteringly enough, that most of our choices are quite unreflectingly determined by standards of living foisted on mostly by social inheritance. By the time a man is old enough to be free to buy what he wants, his tastes are largely formed, and thenceforward he simply helps tyrannize over the oncoming generation.

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THEORY of Consumption, A (Book); KYRK, Hazel; SOCIAL psychology; QUALITY of life; CONSUMPTION (Economics); BOOKS
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