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In CHEAP We Trust

The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue

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Cheap. Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare, she realized she had turned into him. ... more

About Author

Lauren Weber was formerly a staff reporter at Reuters and Newsday. She has also written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, American Banker, and other publications. A former resident at Yaddo, Lauren graduated from Wesleyan University and was a Knight-Bagehot fellow, a fellowship that invites 10 business journalists each year to study finance and economics at Columbia's Graduate School of Business.

Lauren grew up with a father whose creative and eccentric ways of saving money included rationing household toilet paper and developing a gas-saving method of driving in which light pedal taps substituted for full braking.

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In CHEAP We Trust
Little Brown and Company
Category:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Format:
HARDCOVER BOOK
Publish Date:
9/7/2009
Price:
$24.99/$29.99
ISBN:
9780316030281
Pages:
320
Size:
5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

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