Download or read book The Joyless Economy written by Tibor Scitovsky and published by New York; Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished economist sets out to show what's wrong with the economist's way of explaining consumer buying patterns on the one hand, and on the other, to suggest to both economists and consumers a more adequate way to understand consumption in the affluent society.