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Scroogenomics : why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays / Joel Waldfogel.

By: Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 173 p. ; 16 cm.ISBN: 9780691142647 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0691142645 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) | GiftsDDC classification: 339.4/7
Contents:
Spending and satisfaction -- U.S. holiday spending -- How much waste occurs at Christmas? -- Why we do it : are gift recipients crackheads, or what? -- Giving and waste around the world -- A century of American Yuletide spending -- Have yourself a borrowed little Christmas -- Is Christmas like spam, underwear, or caviar? -- Christmas and commercialism : are Santa and Jesus on the same team? : if so, who's team captain? -- Stop carping : it's all for the best -- Making giving more efficient with cash and gift cards -- Giving and redistribution -- Solutionsm--making gift giving a force for good.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 339.47 W145 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003706462

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spending and satisfaction -- U.S. holiday spending -- How much waste occurs at Christmas? -- Why we do it : are gift recipients crackheads, or what? -- Giving and waste around the world -- A century of American Yuletide spending -- Have yourself a borrowed little Christmas -- Is Christmas like spam, underwear, or caviar? -- Christmas and commercialism : are Santa and Jesus on the same team? : if so, who's team captain? -- Stop carping : it's all for the best -- Making giving more efficient with cash and gift cards -- Giving and redistribution -- Solutionsm--making gift giving a force for good.

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