Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present

by James Davison Hunter and Joshua Yates

Book Overview

Thrift 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199769060
• ISBN13: 9780199769063
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"