Questions for Chapter 5

1.    What kind of things do people like to spend money on? Why?

2.    What does “technological revolution” mean?

3.    Explain. Why do Americans like cleanliness?

4.    Why do people worry that children use a lot of time to watch TV?

5.    What does “Ever-Expanding Pie” mean?

6.    Is it good or bad to have a lot of technology? Why?

7.    What are the most important things for economic growth?

8.    What are positive and negative sides of American abundance?

9.    Why did Tocqueville relate material possessions and insecurity?

10.           What is the role of sponsorship in consumer behavior?

11.           How do the people who advertise find the fragmented audience?

12.           Why is there unemployment when the American economy is still growing?

13.           How did an abundance of technology influence the American economy?

14.           What do the American think about recycling?