Americans today often think of thrift as a negative value—a miserly hoarding of resources and a denial of pleasure. Even more telling, many Americans don’t even think of thrift at all anymore. Franklin’s Thrift challenges this state of mind by recovering the rich history of thrift as a quintessentially American virtue.
Americans today often think of thrift as a negative value—a miserly hoarding of resources and a denial of pleasure. Even more telling, many Americans don’t even think of thrift at all anymore. Franklin’s Thrift challenges this state of mind by recovering the rich history of thrift as a quintessentially American virtue.
David Blankenhorn is the founder and president of the Institute for American Values, a nonpartisan organization devoted to strengthening families and civil society in the U.S. and the world. For the past three years, he has led an initiative at the institute to study thrift. A 1998 profile in the New York Times described Blankenhorn as a “consensus builder for a moral base in society.” He lives in New York City with his wife, Raina, their son, Raymond, and their two daughters, Sophia and Alexandra. Sorcha Brophy-Warren is a doctoral student in sociology at Yale University. Previously she was an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, where she researched thrift and wrote a literature review of business ethics curricula. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is the codirector of Rutger’s University’s National Marriage Project and an award-winning journalist. Her books include Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman and The Divorce Culture.
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Introduction / ix David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren Part One: Franklin’s Thrift: The Creation of an American Value 1. Franklin’s Way to Wealth / 3 Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Part Two: Thrift after Franklin: Institutions and Movements 2. U.S. Mutual Savings Banks and the “Savings Bank Idea”: The Virtue of Thrift as an Institutional Value / 29 Sorcha Brophy-Warren 3. Thrift for a New Century: Public Discussions about Thrift in the 1910s and 1920s / 57 Sara Butler Nardo 4. A Century of Thrift Shops / 97 Alison Humes 5. I n Savings We Trust: Credit Unions and Thrift / 127 Clifford N. Rosenthal Part Three: For a New Thrift: Meeting the Twenty-First Century Challenge 6. Confronting the American Debt Culture / 145 Barbara Dafoe Whitehead 7. Crafting Policies to Encourage Thrift in Contemporary America / 165 Alex Roberts 8. Private Enterprise’s Role in Increasing Savings / 187 Ronald T. Wilcox Conclusion / 207 David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren Notes / 211 Contributors / 243 Index / 247
Introduction / ix David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren Part One: Franklin’s Thrift: The Creation of an American Value 1. Franklin’s Way to Wealth / 3 Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Part Two: Thrift after Franklin: Institutions and Movements 2. U.S. Mutual Savings Banks and the “Savings Bank Idea”: The Virtue of Thrift as an Institutional Value / 29 Sorcha Brophy-Warren 3. Thrift for a New Century: Public Discussions about Thrift in the 1910s and 1920s / 57 Sara Butler Nardo 4. A Century of Thrift Shops / 97 Alison Humes 5. I n Savings We Trust: Credit Unions and Thrift / 127 Clifford N. Rosenthal Part Three: For a New Thrift: Meeting the Twenty-First Century Challenge 6. Confronting the American Debt Culture / 145 Barbara Dafoe Whitehead 7. Crafting Policies to Encourage Thrift in Contemporary America / 165 Alex Roberts 8. Private Enterprise’s Role in Increasing Savings / 187 Ronald T. Wilcox Conclusion / 207 David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren Notes / 211 Contributors / 243 Index / 247
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