Spoiled Rotten: Affluence, Anxiety, and Social Decay in America by Brian GoffX

Conventional wisdom holds that wages and personal incomes for the average American have stagnated in the U.S. over the last twenty-five years. The combination of flat living standards for the masses and rising standards for a privileged few have created a number of social ills. Spoiled Rotten presents a simple and contradictory argument by two top economists: if properly and completely measured, material well-being has grown for practically all U.S. residents over the last quarter-century, a fantastic growth coupled with a variety of negative social consequences.