Scroogenomics why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays
Economist Joel Waldfogel illustrates how our consumer spending generates vast amounts of economic waste--to the shocking tune of $85 billion each winter. He provides solid explanations to show us why it's time to stop the madness and think twice before buying gifts for the holidays. Gift giving...
| Main Author: | Waldfogel, Joel, 1962- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c2009.
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Table of 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.