The Eclipse of 'Elegant Economy': The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain (Modern Economic and Social History)
By Martin Cohen.
Description
Elizabeth Gaskell might have been amused to learn that the Victorian 'elegant economy' she mocked so poignantly in Cranford reached a new apogee in the mid-twentieth century and endured the invasion of its precise antithesis, 'conspicuous consumption'. For Britons of all classes the years of austerity during and after the Second World War were years of disorientation and fears of resurgence of the worst of the interwar decades. They had never had more money in their pockets or less material things on which to spend it. Many took refuge in the 'elegant economy',...
ISBN(s)
1409439720, 9781409439721
