Scroogenomics
Subtitle: why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays
By: Joel Waldfogel.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691142647
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Gifts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spending and satisfaction; title: U.S. holiday spending; title: How much waste occurs at Christmas?; title: Why we do it : are gift recipients crackheads, or what?; title: Giving and waste around the world; title: A century of American Yuletide spending; title: Have yourself a borrowed little Christmas; title: Is Christmas like spam, underwear, or caviar?; title: Christmas and commercialism : are Santa and Jesus on the same team? : if so, who's; title: Team captain?; title: Stop carping : it's all for the best; title: Making giving more efficient with cash and gift cards; title: Giving and redistribution; title: Solutionsm-making gift giving a force for good.