Spent is a great book. I particularly liked the descriptive part of it, should be required reading for anyone working in marketing or trying to sell products. I

Spent is a great book. I particularly liked the descriptive part of it, should be required reading for anyone working in marketing or trying to sell products. I'm not so sure about his prescriptive ideas. He proposes different ways to shape policy so that people rely less on consumerism to send status signals to each other. In general they are interesting but sound a bit impractical. Still, it's very well written and enjoyable.