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  • Read an Excerpt from Richard Denniss' Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World
    Read an Excerpt from Richard Denniss' Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World
    January 09, 2018

    Read an Excerpt from Richard Denniss' Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World

    Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World by prominent Australian economist Richard Denniss (Between the Lines) interrogates the darkness behind the widely hated word in its title. ...

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