Thrift and thriving in America : capitalism and moral order from the Puritans to the present / edited by Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The question of thrift / James Davison Hunter, Joshua J. Yates -- The controversial virtue of thrift in the early American republic / Daniel Walker Howe -- The prehistory of American thrift / Deirdre McCloskey -- Saving grace and moral striving : thrift in Puritan theology / James Calvin Davis, Charles Mathewes -- Thrift and prosperity / Stephen Innes -- Moderation in the first era of popular consumption / Joyce Appleby -- Spreading the gospel of self-denial : thrift and association in Antebellum America / Kathleen D. McCarthy -- African Americans, slavery, and thrift from the Revolution to the Civil War / Patrick Rael -- The modernization of thrift / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Thrift and moral formation / James Davison Hunter -- The virtue of consumption : challenging thrift in an age of transition / Lawrence B. Glickman -- Thrift and advertising / Jennifer Scanlon -- Hard payments : consumer credit and thrift / Lendol Calder -- Mass philanthropy as public thrift for an age of consumption / Olivier Zunz -- Immigrants and thrift / David M. Reimers -- Saving for democracy : thrift, sacrifice, and the World War II bond campaigns / Kiku Adatto -- Why do Americans save so little and does it matter? / Robert H. Frank -- The rise and fall of "collective thrift" : social insurance, economic planning, and the decline of modern American liberalism / Steven Fraser -- Middle-class respectability in twenty-first-century America : work and lifestyle in the professional-managerial stratum / Steven Brint, Kristopher Proctor -- Thrift in the other America / Wilson Brissett -- Thrift and waste in American history : an ecological view / J.R. McNeill, George Vrtis -- Disputing abundance : the antiglobalization protest movement and our changing natural imaginary / Joshua J. Yates -- Thrift and thriving : toward a moral framework for economic life / Joshua J. Yates, James Davison Hunter.