Mises Review
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David Gordon
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Miscalculating Human Interest Mises Review 6, No. 1 (Spring 2000) LUXURY FEVER: WHY MONEY FAILS TO SATISFY IN AN ERA OF EXCESS Robert H. Frank The Free Press, 1999, ix + 326 pgs. In 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith assailed American spending patterns. Consumers, he told us in The Affluent Society , spend too much on such fripperies as large tailfins