Thrift and thriving in America : capitalism and moral order from the Puritans to the present

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Contributors: Yates, Joshua J., Hunter, James Davison, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.