Devising Consumption

Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending

Bibliographic Data

ID5776889
AuthorsLiz Mcfall (0000-0001-8681-2576, National Library of Scotland, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-04-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypePREPRINT
PublisherCenter for Open Science (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31219/osf.io/at2nv
OpenAlexW1517776551
LanguageEN
Citations received44
References cited38

Devising Consumption explores the vital role played by thefinancial service industries in enabling the poor to consumeover the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requiresmeans, but these industries also offered practical marketingdevices that captured, captivated and enticed poorconsumers. The role of these devices has been poorlyunderstood both in the social sciences and in businessstudies and marketing. The book advances the case for a morepragmatic understanding of how ordinary, dull, everydayconsumption is arranged, and offers an alternative toorthodox approaches

Consumer spending · Consumption · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

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