@booklet {8734, title = {"Waste--The Future of Prosperity{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Whither, Whither, or After Sex, What? A Symposium to End Symposiums}, year = {1930}, note = {

A shorter version rpt. in The New Republic (New York) 63 (July 16, 1930): 228-31; and in The New Republic Anthology 1915 : 1935. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1936), 330-37. A condensed version was published in The Reader\’s Digest (Chappaqua, NY) 17.102 (October 1930): 481-83.\ 

}, month = {1930}, pages = {47-77}, publisher = {The Macaulay Co.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire on conspicuous consumption including such outlandish ideas for the time as bottled water. See 2007 Shouse for a commentary and a new satire. For Burke\’s own reflections on the essay, see his \“Recipe for Prosperity: \‘Borrow, Buy, Waste, Want\’.\”\ The Nation\ (New York) 183.10 (September 8, 1956): 191-93; and 1971 Burke.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993)} }