Measuring our love of stuff

A new study says we continue to add more big-ticket items to the list of things we can't live without. Some of the items making the biggest gains over the past ten years are a mix of old and new: microwave ovens and cell phones.

Guests

• Paul Taylor: Executive vice president of the Pew Research Center and one of the authors of the center's "Luxury or Necessity?" study.
• Robert Thompson: Founding director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, where he is also a professor of Television and Popular Culture at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Resources

• Pew Center: Luxury or Necessity?
• About Robert Thompson