Financing the American dream: a cultural history of consumer credit

By:

Calder, Lendol

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 1999 Princeton University Press PrincetonDescription: xv, 377 pISBN:

9780691074559

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

332.70973 C2F4

Summary: Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and the delay of gratification while encouraging reckless consumerism. Or so we commonly believe. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Lendol Calder shows that this conception of the past is in fact a myth. (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6555.html)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad	332.70973 C2F4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		171995

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Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and the delay of gratification while encouraging reckless consumerism. Or so we commonly believe. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Lendol Calder shows that this conception of the past is in fact a myth. (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6555.html)

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