Consumer Culture and Personal Finance

Money Goes to Market

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9780230008670
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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 2010 9780230008670
Onderdeel van serie Consumption and Public Life
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen

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This book explores the personal savings and credit discourses surrounding post-war British consumer culture. This cultural history highlights the contradictory meanings of home ownership, domesticity, women's consumerism, and banking deregulation that underwrote unprecedented financial crisis and consumer indebtedness.

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ISBN13:9780230008670
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Introduction Prudent Investment and Modest Consumption Women, Home, Consumption, Lending and Ill Repute Hire Purchase, Home Furnishings and the Cult of Domesticity Gentlemanly Bankers Adopt a New Set of Manners Big Bang Banking The Press Takes on Personal Debt Three Personal Finance Discourses Personal Financial Identities in Psychology and Popular Literature Conclusion Bibliography

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