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In cheap we trust the story of a misunderstood American virtue

Considers our hot-and-cold relationship with thrift and offers a colorful ride through its history in America, from Ben Franklin and his famous maxims to the branding of Jews and the Chinese as cheap in order to neutralize the economic competition they represented.

Main Author: Weber, Lauren.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Seibel, Sophie Stein tribute.
Thriftiness.
Finance, Personal.
Finance, Personal > United States.
Summary: Considers our hot-and-cold relationship with thrift and offers a colorful ride through its history in America, from Ben Franklin and his famous maxims to the branding of Jews and the Chinese as cheap in order to neutralize the economic competition they represented.
Physical Description: viii, 310 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p.[285]-304) and index.
ISBN: 9780316030281
0316030287
Author Notes: Lauren Weber was formerly a staff reporter at Reuters and Newsday. She has also written for The New York Times , The Los Angeles Times,American Banker,and other publications. A former resident at Yaddo, Lauren graduated from Wesleyan University and was a Knight-Bagehot fellow, a fellowship that invites 10 business journalists each year to study finance and economics at Columbia's Graduate School of Business.

Lauren grew up with a father whose creative and eccentric ways of saving money included rationing household toilet paper and developing a gas-saving method of driving in which light pedal taps substituted for full braking.

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