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OverviewThrift is a powerful and evolving moral ideal, disposition, and practice that has indelibly marked the character of American life since its earliest days. Its surprisingly multifaceted character opens a number of expansive vistas for analysis, not only in the American past, but also in its present. Thrift remains, if perhaps in unexpected and counter-intuitive ways, intensely relevant to the complex issues of contemporary moral and economic life. Thrift and Thriving in America is a collection of groundbreaking essays from leading scholars on the seminal importance of thrift to American culture and history. From a rich diversity of disciplinary perspectives, the volume shows that far from the narrow and attenuated rendering of thrift as a synonym of saving and scrimping, thrift possess an astonishing capaciousness and dynamism, and that the idiom of thrift has, in one form or another, served as the primary language for articulating the normative dimensions of economic life throughout much of American history. The essays put thrift in a more expansive light, revealing its compelling etymology-its sense of thriving. This deeper meaning has always operated as the subtext of thrift and at times has even been invoked to critique its more restricted notions. So understood, thrift moves beyond the instrumentalities of more or less and begs the question: what does it mean and take to thrive? Thoroughly examining how Americans have answered this question, Thrift and Thriving in America provides fascinating insight into evolving meanings of material wellbeing, and of the good life and the good society more generally, and will serve as a perennial resource on a notion that has and will continue to shape and define American life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joshua Yates , Prof. James Davison HunterPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 17.70cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 1.016kg ISBN: 9780199769063ISBN 10: 0199769060 Pages: 640 Publication Date: 25 August 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Question of Thrift, James Davison Hunter and Joshua J. Yates Part I: The Emergence of Thrift in Early America, 1630-1880 Chapter 2 The Controversial Virtue of Thrift in the Early American Republic, Daniel Walker Howe Chapter 3 The Prehistory of American Thrift, Deirdre McCloskey Chapter 4 Saving Grace and Moral Striving: Thrift in Puritan Theology, James Calvin Davis and Charles Mathewes Chapter 5 Thrift and Prosperity, Stephen Innes Chapter 6 Moderation in the First Era of Popular Consumption, Joyce Appleby Chapter 7 Spreading the Gospel of Self-Denial: Thrift and Association in Antebellum America, Kathleen D. McCarthy Chapter 8 African Americans, Slavery, and Thrift from the Revolution to the Civil War, Patrick Rael Part II: The Modernization of Thrift: Years of Transition and Transformation, 1880-1950 Chapter 9 The Modernization of Thrift, T. J. Jackson Lears Chapter 10 Thrift and Moral Formation, James Davison Hunter Chapter 11 The Virtue of Consumption: Challenging Thrift in an Age of Transition, Lawrence B. Glickman Chapter 12 Thrift and Advertising, Jennifer Scanlon Chapter 13 Hard Payments: Consumer Credit and Thrift, Lendol Calder Chapter 14 Mass Philanthropy as Public Thrift for an Age of Consumption, Olivier Zunz Chapter 15 Immigrants and Thrift, David M. Reimers Chapter 16 Saving for Democracy: Thrift, Sacrifice, and the World War II Bond Campaigns, Kiku Adatto Part III: Thriving After Thrift? Prosperity & Crisis since 1950 Chapter 17 Why Do Americans Save So Little and Does It Matter?, Robert H. Frank Chapter 18 The Rise and Fall of Collective Thrift : Social Insurance, Economic Planning, and the Decline of Modern American Liberalism, Steven Fraser Chapter 19 Middle-Class Respectability in 21st Century America: Work and Lifestyle in the Professional-Managerial Stratum, Steven Brint and Kristopher Proctor Chapter 20 Thrift in the Other America, Wilson Brissett Chapter 21 Thrift and Waste in American History: An Ecological View, J. R. McNeill and George Vrtis Chapter 22 Disputing Abundance: The Antiglobalization Protest Movement and Our Changing Natural Imaginary, Joshua J. Yates Chapter 23 Conclusion: Thrift & Thriving: Toward a Moral Framework for Economic Life, Joshua J. Yates and James Davison HunterReviewsfull of rich insights Brian P. Liskey, Journal of Social History <br> Thrift is sometimes taken to be the most obvious and boring of the virtues. But that is only because we rarely stop to think about it, or are content to honor it-if we honor it at all-with words rather than deeds. These fascinating essays should challenge such complacency. They have the same effect on the reader that Socrates' relentless inquiries had on his interlocutors: they overturn all unreflective notions about thrift, and demonstrate that its meaning for us is inseparable from what we believe about the proper ends of human existence. -Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga <br><p><br> Why people save, and how much, and when, is a subject of continuing importance to economists, and it is getting more so over time as many countries' populations are aging. Not surprisingly, others have important insights on these questions as well. This new volume brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including eminent historians such as Joyce Appleby and Daniel Walker Howe, to share their insights on thrift in a specifically American setting. Reading these essays will usefully broaden the perspective of anyone interested in saving behavior. -Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University, author of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth<br><p><br> The credit crunch may signal the end of the Consumer Society and the dawn of the Age of Thrift. If so, Thrift and Thriving will restore not only the fortunes of economic sociology but the neglected legacy of moral economy. Opening up new insights into American history around the language of virtue, Yates and Hunter have assembled a dazzling collection of essays. -Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor of Sociology, The City University of New York <br><p><br> <br> Thrift is sometimes taken to be the most obvious and boring of the virtues. But that is only because we rarely stop to think about it, or are content to honor it-if we honor it at all-with words rather than deeds. These fascinating essays should challenge such complacency. They have the same effect on the reader that Socrates' relentless inquiries had on his interlocutors: they overturn all unreflective notions about thrift, and demonstrate that its meaning for us is inseparable from what we believe about the proper ends of human existence. -Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga <br><p><br> Why people save, and how much, and when, is a subject of continuing importance to economists, and it is getting more so over time as many countries' populations are aging. Not surprisingly, others have important insights on these questions as well. This new volume brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including em Thrift is sometimes taken to be the most obvious and boring of the virtues. But that is only because we rarely stop to think about it, or are content to honor it-if we honor it at all-with words rather than deeds. These fascinating essays should challenge such complacency. They have the same effect on the reader that Socrates' relentless inquiries had on his interlocutors: they overturn all unreflective notions about thrift, and demonstrate that its meaning for us is inseparable from what we believe about the proper ends of human existence. -Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Why people save, and how much, and when, is a subject of continuing importance to economists, and it is getting more so over time as many countries' populations are aging. Not surprisingly, others have important insights on these questions as well. This new volume brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including eminent historians such as Joyce Appleby and Daniel Walker Howe, to share their insights on thrift in a specifically American setting. Reading these essays will usefully broaden the perspective of anyone interested in saving behavior. -Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University, author of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth The credit crunch may signal the end of the Consumer Society and the dawn of the Age of Thrift. If so, Thrift and Thriving will restore not only the fortunes of economic sociology but the neglected legacy of moral economy. Opening up new insights into American history around the language of virtue, Yates and Hunter have assembled a dazzling collection of essays. -Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor of Sociology, The City University of New York [T]his volume enables the other contributors to range over an impressive swath of intellectual territory. The intellectual free range extends Author InformationJoshua J. Yates is a Research Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Director of the Program on Culture, Capitalism, and Global Change at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture. James Davison Hunter is the LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia. His many writings are all variously concerned with the problem of meaning and moral order in a time of political and cultural change in American life. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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