Consumer culture and personal finance
Subtitle: money goes to market
By: Jacqueline Botterill
Series: Consumption and public life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780230008670
Description: "This is an ideal resource for Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the Sociology and Geography of Financial Markets, Consumer Culture, Family Sociology, and Economics (social economy of households)"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prudent investment and modest consumption; title: Women, home, consumption, lending, & ill repute; title: Hire purchase, home furnishings, and the cult of domesticity; title: Gentlemanly bankers adopt a new set of manners; title: Big bang banking; title: The press takes on personal debt; title: Three personal finance discourses; title: Personal financial identities in psychology and popular literature.