Bringing back Thrift Week: Neo-liberalism and the rediscovery of thrift

Josephine Anne Maltby

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, 2014, vol. 25, issue 2, 115-127

Abstract: The paper examines and compares the movements for promoting working-class savings in the modern USA and in Great Britain in the 19th century. It explores the use of savings as a technology for managing individuals’ behaviour and motives and the nature of the government objectives which are served by these parallel projects.

Keywords: Critical; Social; Public interest; Savings; Saving banks; Critique; Social; Intérêt public; 批判性; 社会的; 公共利益; Crítica; Social; Interés Público (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.03.007

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