"Waste--The Future of Prosperity”

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Title"Waste--The Future of Prosperity”
Year for Search1930
AuthorsBurke, Kenneth [Duva](1897-1993)
Tertiary AuthorsHankel, Walter S. [pseud.]
Secondary TitleWhither, Whither, or After Sex, What? A Symposium to End Symposiums
Pagination47-77
Date Published1930
PublisherThe Macaulay Co.
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

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.
Additional Publishers

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. 
Info Notes

Burke says it was written just before the 1929 stock market crash.
Illustration

Illus. Bill Gropper
Holding Institutions

PSt, which holds Burke's papers.
Author Note

(1897-1993)
Full Text

1930 Burke, Kenneth [Duva] (1897-1993). “Waste--The Future of Prosperity.” Whither, Whither, or After Sex, What? A Symposium to End Symposiums. Ed. Walter S. Hankel [pseud.]. Illus. Bill Gropper (New York: The Macaulay Co., 1930), 47-77 with a satirical and inaccurate “Brief Biography” by the editor on 77-79. 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. Burke says it was written just before the 1929 stock market crash.

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.