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Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. A certain time of year is at hand—holiday shopping season. Here to put a damper on the notion as it's currently played out is Wharton School business professor and author (The Tyranny of the Market) Joel Waldfogel with his new book, Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays (Princeton). "Waldfogel delivers a badly needed poke in the eye at holiday-time consumer madness, positing that not only is compulsory gift giving stressful and expensive, but it's economically unsound ... This lively, spot-on book may be the one gift that still makes sense to buy come Black Friday." - Publishers Weekly. This is true: books are exempt from this cautionary tale, in our opinion. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m., via www.brownpapertickets.com (or 1-800-838-3006). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.

Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holiday (Hardcover)

By Joel Waldfogel

$9.95

ISBN-13: 9780691142647
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Princeton University Press, 10/2009

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