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Item Information   Holdings     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary       More by this author     Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-     Subjects     Consumption (Economics)     Gifts.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-       by title:      Scroogenomics : why ...         MARC Display

Scroogenomics : why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays / Joel Waldfogel. by Waldfogel, Joel, 1962- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009. Subjects Consumption (Economics)   Gifts. ISBN:  9780691142647 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691142645 (hardcover : alk. paper) Description:  173, [1] p. ; 16 cm. 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 -- Solutionsm--making gift giving a force for good.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Kettering University Library Ku Stack HB 801 .W272 2009 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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