Waldfogel Scroogenomics

Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3125-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Waldfogel, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gottesdienst, Riten und Zeremonien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1

CHAPTER TWO: Spending and Satisfaction 6

CHAPTER THREE: U.S. Holiday Spending 23

CHAPTER FOUR: How Much Waste Occurs at Christmas? 29

CHAPTER FIVE: Why We Do It: Are Gift Recipients Crackheads, or What? 41

CHAPTER SIX: Giving and Waste around the World 57

CHAPTER SEVEN: A Century of American Yuletide Spending 71

CHAPTER EIGHT: Have Yourself a Borrowed Little Christmas 78

CHAPTER NINE: Is Christmas Like Spam, Underwear, or Caviar? 89

CHAPTER TEN: Christmas and Commercialism: Are Santa and Jesus on the Same Team? If So, Who's Team Captain? 99

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Stop Carping; It's All for the Best 104

CHAPTER TWELVE: Making Giving More Effi cient with Cash

and Gift Cards 113

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Giving and Redistribution 120

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Solutions --Making Gift Giving a Force for Good 134

Notes 147

Index 171

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Waldfogel is the Ehrenkranz Professor and Chair of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Tyranny of the Market and has been a columnist for Slate.