Bringing back Thrift Week: Neo-Liberalism and the Rediscovery of Thrift

TY - JOUR

T1 - Bringing back Thrift Week

T2 - Neo-Liberalism and the Rediscovery of Thrift

AU - Maltby, Josephine Anne

PY - 2013/8/3

Y1 - 2013/8/3

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Savings

KW - Savings Banks

KW - Thrift

U2 - 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.03.007

DO - 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.03.007

M3 - Article

SN - 1045-2354

VL - Early Online

SP - 1

EP - 12

JO - Critical Perspectives on Accounting

JF - Critical Perspectives on Accounting

IS - 2

M1 - YCPAC-1792

ER -