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Consumer culture and personal finance : money goes to market /

By: Botterill, Jackie
Material type: BookSeries: Consumption and public life.Publisher: Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: vii, 253 p. : ill ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780230008670 (hc)Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) | Consumer behavior | Finance, PersonalDDC classification: 306.3 Online resources: Location Map
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"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.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
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306.3 BO CO (Browse shelf) Available T0041104
REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
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306.3 BO CO (Browse shelf) Available T0041090
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245) and index.

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.

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