It takes the average reader 5 hours and 49 minutes to read The Emptiness of Affluence in Japan by Gavan McCormack
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Against the powerful image of Japan as a rising economic superpower, or even, in Ezra Vogel's influential formulation a deade ago, "Japan as number 1", this book explores the fragility, hubris and human and environmental costs of Japan's desperate drive for hyperdevelopment. As this economic superpower finds itself drifting, rudderless, through the decade, four seminal events seem to emblemise the enveloping crisis: the Kobe Earthquake, which the author shows to be no mere act of nature, but an event whose consequences are intimately bound up with desperate hypergrowth; The Ayum Rikyo poison...
The Emptiness of Affluence in Japan by Gavan McCormack is 344 pages long, and a total of 87,376 words.
This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 57 minutes to read The Emptiness of Affluence in Japan aloud.
The Emptiness of Affluence in Japan is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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