Autorentext

The School of Life is a groundbreaking enterprise which offers good ideas for everyday living. It address such issues as how to find fulfilling work, how to master the art of relationships and how better to understand, and as necessary change, the world through classes, therapies, books and films. It is headquartered in London, with campuses in Melbourne, Paris, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, Istanbul, Belgrade, Antwerp, Seoul, Tel Aviv.

Klappentext

A thought-provoking and entertaining title on how to feel richer at heart, it highlights how more of things we could love are in fact, already to hand.

Zusammenfassung
This volume explores the way we can easily pine for what is costly and out of reach - and it gently returns us to ourselves, full of new found wonder and gratitude. Combining literature, economics and sheer good sense, Why We Hate Cheap Things reawakens us to the world immediately around us and to the latent beauty and interest of what we have.

Inhalt

i. Why We Hate Cheap Things

ii. Why We Look Down on People Who Don't Earn Very Much

iii. On Being an Unemployed Arts Graduate

iv. Good Materialism

v. Why We Are So Bad at Shopping

vi. Using Sex to Sell