[PDF.54es] Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (Princeton Paperbacks)

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (Princeton Paperbacks)

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Informative, but a little borning.|By Michael|Calder brings up a lot interesting developments surrounding the growth of consumer credit, which can easily draw parallels to cirticisms of modern day institutions such as social networks (we're loosing "real" social contact! Not really, we're just changing how we make it). The price was hefty, however, and it's pretty borning to sl|From Publishers Weekly|Debunking what he calls the "myth of lost economic virtue"Athe notion that Americans lived debt-free until the advent of consumer credit gave rise to a kind of collective hedonism corrosive to traditional moral valuesACalder traces the use

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 conc...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (Princeton Paperbacks)   |  Lendol Calder. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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