The harried leisure class
by Staffan Burenstam Linder · first published 1970
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In From Dawn to Decadence, Jacques Barzun mentions in passing the book The Harried Leisure Class, published in 1970. One can probably find it in many college libraries. I remember it as an interesting and cogent book. I am probably the age of Ms. Buck's parents, and I don't immediately see a great…
on “Our parents discovered leisure, we killed it” ↗The book The Harried Leisure Class (http://www.amazon.com/Harried-Leisure-Staffan-Burenstam-Lind...) suggests an interesting explanation for this.
on “Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness (1932)” ↗>In the 1970 book The Harried Leisure Class, the Swedish economist Staffan Burenstam Linder wrote that as a society gets richer, leisure time takes on the frantic quality of work. As rich people feel like their downtime is scarce—as each non-working…
on “Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over” ↗