A must read for people who are dissatisfied with what they possess. Instead of seeking for more, and more satisfying consumption, this book suggests limiting and voluntary reduction of consumption. Consumption Markets and Culture An achievement of the highest order ... This book should find its way into the hands of anyone who is seriously concerned with Catholic social doctrine. National Catholic Reporter Cloutier is a first-class intellectual who delves into the realm of ideas with ease and insight... This review has not done Cloutier's book justice. His treatment of reciprocity and gratuitousness, the need for a morality that is intrinsic to our economic decision-making, and his detailed debunking of dominant economic ideology is so extraordinarily well done, I cannot recommend this book enough. It should not only change the conversation in Catholic social teaching circles, but represents a challenge, a thoughtful, precise challenge, to contemporary economics. Cloutier ... has delivered a masterpiece of Catholic thought. National Catholic Reporter Rises to the challenge of taking on a difficult and neglected topic... Astonishingly thorough. Catholic Books Review