The eclipse of 'elegant economy'
Subtitle: the impact of the Second World War on attitudes to personal finance in Britain
By: Martin Cohen
Series: Modern economic and social history
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781409439721; 9781409439738
Subjects: Personal Finance; Economic conditions; Consumption (Economics); World War, 1939-1945; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Fleeting crescent (1918 to 1939 and before); title: Petrified "capitalists" (the Second World War); title: Short dawn (1945 to 1947); title: First quartile (1948 to 1951); title: Dividend-seeking "socialists" (the co-operative movement); title: Spreading shadow (1951 to 1957); title: Total eclipse and its corona (1957 and beyond).