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31.
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33.
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34.
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35.
See
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.

36.
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; Ross McDonald, “Television, Materialism and Culture: An Exploration of Imported Media and its Implications for GNH,”
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37.
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.

39.
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. See also Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer,
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46.
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NINE: THE DESTRUCTIVE NATURE OF PROCRUSTEANISM
 

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.

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20.
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, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Fall 2007): 123.

21.
Richard Sennett,
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(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 67.

22.
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.

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.

24.
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25.
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26.
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27.
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, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Fall 2007): 144.

28.
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, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Fall 2007): 110.

29.
Ibid.

30.
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31.
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32.
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33.
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34.
Harrison Emerson,
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35.
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36.
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37.
Ibid.

38.
Harley Shaiken,
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(New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985), 19–20.

39.
Joan Greenbaum,
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(New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995), 4; citing, Juliet Webster,
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(London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990), 118.

40.
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The Culture of the New Capitalism
, 34.

41.
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42.
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.

43.
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44.
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45.
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, Vol. 5, No. 3 (1975): 303.

46.
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, Vol. 4, Issue 2, Article 3 (2007): 1.

47.
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November 12, 2000.

48.
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, Vol. 79, No. 2 (April 2006): 337, Table 1.

49.
Ibid., 338, Table 2.

50.
Ibid., 341, Figure 1.

51.
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(London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1907), 13, 92.

52.
Mehri,
Notes From Toyota-Land
, 31–32.

53.
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, 2 vols. (1925; New York: Kelley, 1967), 45.

54.
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55.
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56.
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.

57.
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58.
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59.
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, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2005): 58.

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