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Economic materialism

Overview

excessive desire to acquire and consume material goods

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Economic materialism

• Henry David Thoreau

Related ideas

• Belief
• Individualism
• Happiness
• Environmentalism
• Price
• Western world
• Well-being
• Experience
• University of California
• Capitalism
• Depression (mood)
• Enlightened self-interest
• Trait theory

Place in the tradition

Part of Romanticism.

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