Botterill, Jackie.

Consumer culture and personal finance : money goes to market / Jacqueline Botterill. - Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - vii, 253 p. : ill ; 23 cm. - Consumption and public life . - Consumption and public life. .



Prudent investment and modest consumption -- Women, home, consumption, lending, & 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.

"This is an ideal resource for Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the Sociology and Geography of Financial Markets, Consumer Culture, Family Sociology, and Economics (social economy of households)"--Provided by publisher.

9780230008670 (hc)

2009044398


Consumption (Economics)
Consumer behavior.
Finance, Personal.

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