Why We Shouldn’t Give Christmas Gifts
Economy • November 2009 • Views: 237
Starting to think about holiday gifts?
Stop!
Joel Waldfogel, author of Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays (Princeton), is convinced that giving Christmas and Hanukkah presents is bad economic policy.
And as the chair of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, he’s no economic novice.