Download e-book for kindle: Thrift: A Cyclopedia by David Blankenhorn

By David Blankenhorn

ISBN-10: 1599471426

ISBN-13: 9781599471426

In contemporary consumer-driven society, extolling the virtues of thrift might sound like a old fashioned relic of a bygone period. american citizens have embraced the information of straightforward credits, quick gratification, and spending as a device to strive against every thing from recessions to the results of usual failures and terrorist assaults. In David Blankenhorn's new compendium, Thrift: A Cyclopedia, he reminds readers of a time while thrift was once considered one of America's such a lot loved cultural values.

Gathering countless numbers of fees, sayings, proverbs, and pictures of Blankenhorn's gigantic own choice of thrift memorabilia, this good-looking ebook is a treasure trove of knowledge from all over the world and through the a while. Readers will locate insights from such diversified resources because the Bible, the Qur'an, William Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, J. C. Penney, and Warren Buffett. Entries are critical, inspiring, sometimes funny, and they'll pass a good way towards increasing the slim belief of thrift as uncomplicated penny pinching; changing that myopic view with certainly one of a broader thrift—one that, as William H. Kniffen places it, "earns principally and spends properly" and results in a lifetime of independence and luxury good into outdated age.

Educators and oldsters will locate considerable knowledge to move directly to the subsequent iteration in regards to the price of labor, saving for the longer term, and generosity. Historians will take pleasure in the glimpses into the U.S. thrift circulation of the Nineteen Twenties. these looking encouragement and proposal will locate a lot fabric right here for mirrored image at the beliefs of fine stewardship, diligence, and sound monetary making plans. As our society ails from wastefulness, transforming into fiscal inequality, indebtedness, and runaway consumerism, there will be no more desirable therapy than this strong little be aware, "thrift", which unearths its root which means within the be aware "thrive."

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