Devising Consumption : Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 81026022
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780203147870
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415694391
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book represents a sustained research effort examining how markets for consumer finance amongst the poor developed over a 150-year period from the 1800s until the 1970s. McFall collected and drew upon a large amount of data, principally archival documents, including advertisements and the record books of the thousands of agents who sold products like life assurance door to door. These often difficult to access primary sources are unusual and yet copious and McFall analyses them in remarkable detail to build an important critical argument about how market devices were crucial in allowing the poor to consume.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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