Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction Thrift, Antithrift, Scale, and Paradox 1
6. Chapter 1. Making Savings 31
7. Chapter 2. Saving, Investment, Th rift? Welfare Beneficiary Households and Borrowing in South Africa 49
8. Chapter 3. Wages, Patronage, and Welfare: Th rift and Its Limits in Argentina’s Gran Chaco 74
9. Chapter 4. Generous Thrift: Postpastoral Cooperation and Fortune-Making among the Torghut of Mongolia 94
10. Chapter 5. Discretio and the Golden Mean: Working Out Frugality and Th rift in Two Czech Postsocialist Monasteries 117
11. Chapter 6. Regimes of Asceticism: Austerity and Thrift in a Spiritual Economy 140
12. Chapter 7. Saving and Wasting: The Paradox of Thrift in a Czech Landfill 162
13. Chapter 8. Thrift and Its Opposites 185
14. Afterword 208
15. Index 213