Scroogenomics : why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Scroogenomics : why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays
AUTHOR:
Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-
ISBN:
9780691142647
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2009
PHYSICAL_DESC:
173 p. ; 16 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes index
CONTENTS:
Spending and satisfaction -- U.S. holiday spending -- How much waste occurs at Christmas? -- Why we do it : are gift recipients crackheads, or what? -- Giving and waste around the world -- A century of American Yuletide spending -- Have yourself a borrowed little Christmas -- Is Christmas like Spam, underwear, or caviar? -- Christmas and commercialism : are Santa and Jesus on the same team? : if so, who's team captain? -- Stop carping : it's all for the best -- Making giving more efficient with cash and gift cards -- Giving and redistribution -- Solutions--making gift giving a force for good.
ABSTRACT:
Economist Joel Waldfogel illustrates how our consumer spending generates vast amounts of economic waste--to the shocking tune of
SUBJECT:
| Consumption (Economics) |
| Gifts |
BIBSUMMARY:
Economist Joel Waldfogel illustrates how our consumer spending generates vast amounts of economic waste--to the shocking tune of