Product Description: The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these industries offered something else as well – they offered practical marketing devices that captured, captivated and enticed poor consumers...read more

Product Description: Economics and Politics, A Series of Papers Upon Public Questions Written on Various Occasions by Rowland Gibson Hazard. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1889 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Product Description: The economy is commonly described either as the apolitical realm of calculation or as the fully political one of domination. This book scrutinizes the ways in which the economy is performed, in order to situate where precisely politics is located with regard to economic matters...read more

Product Description: Advertising is often used to illustrate popular and academic debates about cultural and economic life. This book reviews cultural and sociological approaches to advertising and, using historical evidence, demonstrates that a rethink of the analysis of advertising is long overdue...read more