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: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230008670
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Consumer behavior; Finance, Personal
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 and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction- Money anxieties: Recovering the History of 'low' Finance * Prisoner's Dilemma: Thrift, Prudent Investment, Home Ownership * Ill Repute: Women, Thrift, Everyday Debt * Higher Purchase: Home Furnishings, Credit, the Cult of Domesticity * Mobile Finance: Britain and the Road to Economic Prosperity? * Money goes to Market: Gentlemanly Bankers and Mass Credit * From Savers to Debtors: Fifty Years of Bank Advertising * Pressing Finance: Journalistic Rhetorics of the Consumer-led Boom * Falling off the Treadmill: Pathologies of Debt in the Consumer Economy * Conclusion- Women and Consumerism: Proportioning Moral Blame Introduction- Money anxieties: Recovering the History of 'low' Finance * Prisoner's Dilemma: Thrift, Prudent Investment, Home Ownership * Ill Repute: Women, Thrift, Everyday Debt * Higher Purchase: Home Furnishings, Credit, the Cult of Domesticity * Mobile Finance: Britain and the Road to Economic Prosperity? * Money goes to Market: Gentlemanly Bankers and Mass Credit * From Savers to Debtors: Fifty Years of Bank Advertising * Pressing Finance: Journalistic Rhetorics of the Consumer-led Boom * Falling off the Treadmill: Pathologies of Debt in the Consumer Economy * Conclusion- Women and Consumerism: Proportioning Moral Blame.