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The Poor Pay More: Consumer Practices of Low-Income Families
by Caplovitz, David
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- first
- Condition
- near fine: toning to endpapers, age wear to edges of text block, text clean, binding tight and square/very good: age toning, tiny chip at top of spine, NOT price clipped ($5.50)
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About This Item
Free Press of Glencoe, 1963. first edition. hardcover. near fine: toning to endpapers, age wear to edges of text block, text clean, binding tight and square/very good: age toning, tiny chip at top of spine, NOT price clipped ($5.50). 8vo 220pp. a sociology study of what could be called the "poverty penalty", which is a concept that poor people pay more for the same goods and services as people with more money do. from front flap: "Based on a survey of 464 households in low-cost public housing projects in New York City, The Poor Pay More spotlights the consumer problems faced by these families. Many of them are recent migrants to the city, striving to improve their style of life through the installment plan. By interviewing the merchants who provide the goods these people want, the author describes and analyzes the intricate system of sales-and-credit evolved in poor sections of the city: a quasi-traditional system relying on informal personal controls as well as legal controls, over its customers.". #00662.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 593
- Title
- The Poor Pay More
- Author
- Caplovitz, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine: toning to endpapers, age wear to edges of text block, text clean, binding tight and square
- Jacket Condition
- very good: age toning, tiny chip at top of spine, NOT price clipped ($5.50)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Free Press of Glencoe
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- economics, history, sociology,
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