Scroogenomics : why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays / Joel Waldfogel.
By: Waldfogel, Joel
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TextPublisher: 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 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 339.47 W145 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003706462 |
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| 339.47 Si39 Trading up : the new American luxury / | 339.47 St31 Consumerism in world history : the global transformation of desire / | 339.47 V998 2008 Going broke : why Americans can't hold on to their money / | 339.47 W145 2009 Scroogenomics : why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays / | 339.47083 B17 2011 Childhood under siege : how big business targets children / | 339.47083 T367 Buy, buy baby : how consumer culture manipulates parents and harms young minds / | 339.470951 G328 As China goes, so goes the world : how Chinese consumers are transforming everything / |
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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