Thrift and Thriving in America

Joshua J. Yates is a Research Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Director of the Program on Culture, Capitalism, and Global Change at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture. James Davison Hunter is the LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia. He has written seven books, edited three books, and published a wide range of essays, articles, and reviews all variously concerned with the problem of meaining and moral order in a time of political and cultural change in American life.

Chapter 1
Introduction: The Question of Thrift, James Davison Hunter and Joshua J. Yates

Part I: The Emergence of Thrift in Early America, 1630-1880
Chapter 2
The Controversial Virtue of Thrift in the Early American Republic, Daniel Walker Howe
Chapter 3
The Prehistory of American Thrift, Deirdre McCloskey
Chapter 4
Saving Grace and Moral Striving: Thrift in Puritan Theology, James Calvin Davis and Charles Mathewes
Chapter 5
Thrift and Prosperity, Stephen Innes
Chapter 6
Moderation in the First Era of Popular Consumption, Joyce Appleby
Chapter 7
Spreading the Gospel of Self-Denial: Thrift and Association in Antebellum America, Kathleen D. McCarthy
Chapter 8
African Americans, Slavery, and Thrift from the Revolution to the Civil War, Patrick Rael

Part II: The Modernization of Thrift: Years of Transition and Transformation, 1880-1950
Chapter 9
The Modernization of Thrift, T. J. Jackson Lears
Chapter 10
Thrift and Moral Formation, James Davison Hunter
Chapter 11
The Virtue of Consumption: Challenging Thrift in an Age of Transition, Lawrence B. Glickman
Chapter 12
Thrift and Advertising, Jennifer Scanlon
Chapter 13
Hard Payments: Consumer Credit and Thrift, Lendol Calder
Chapter 14
Mass Philanthropy as Public Thrift for an Age of Consumption, Olivier Zunz
Chapter 15
Immigrants and Thrift, David M. Reimers
Chapter 16
Saving for Democracy: Thrift, Sacrifice, and the World War II Bond Campaigns, Kiku Adatto

Part III: Thriving After Thrift? Prosperity & Crisis since 1950
Chapter 17
Why Do Americans Save So Little and Does It Matter?, Robert H. Frank
Chapter 18
The Rise and Fall of "Collective Thrift": Social Insurance, Economic Planning, and the Decline of Modern American Liberalism, Steven Fraser
Chapter 19
Middle-Class Respectability in 21st Century America: Work and Lifestyle in the Professional-Managerial Stratum, Steven Brint and Kristopher Proctor
Chapter 20
Thrift in the Other America, Wilson Brissett
Chapter 21
Thrift and Waste in American History: An Ecological View, J. R. McNeill and George Vrtis
Chapter 22
Disputing Abundance: The Antiglobalization Protest Movement and Our Changing Natural Imaginary, Joshua J. Yates
Chapter 23
Conclusion: Thrift & Thriving: Toward a Moral Framework for Economic Life, Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter