Consumer culture and personal finance : money goes to market

VII, 253 S.

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction- Money anxieties: Recovering the History of 'low' Finance * Prisoner's Dilemma: Thrift, Prudent Investment, Home Ownership * Ill Repute: Women, Thrift, Everyday Debt * Higher Purchase: Home Furnishings, Credit, the Cult of Domesticity * Mobile Finance: Britain and the Road to Economic Prosperity? * Money goes to Market: Gentlemanly Bankers and Mass Credit * From Savers to Debtors: Fifty Years of Bank Advertising * Pressing Finance: Journalistic Rhetorics of the Consumer-led Boom * Falling off the Treadmill: Pathologies of Debt in the Consumer Economy * Conclusion- Women and Consumerism: Proportioning Moral Blame Introduction- Money anxieties: Recovering the History of 'low' Finance * Prisoner's Dilemma: Thrift, Prudent Investment, Home Ownership * Ill Repute: Women, Thrift, Everyday Debt * Higher Purchase: Home Furnishings, Credit, the Cult of Domesticity * Mobile Finance: Britain and the Road to Economic Prosperity? * Money goes to Market: Gentlemanly Bankers and Mass Credit * From Savers to Debtors: Fifty Years of Bank Advertising * Pressing Finance: Journalistic Rhetorics of the Consumer-led Boom * Falling off the Treadmill: Pathologies of Debt in the Consumer Economy * Conclusion- Women and Consumerism: Proportioning Moral Blame.

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