TY - BOOK ID - 129070906 TI - Respectable citizens - shady practices : the economic morality of the middle classes AU - Farrall, Stephen AU - Karstedt, Susanne PY - 2020 SN - 0199595038 9780199595037 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Economics KW - Economics KW - Middle class. KW - Middle class. KW - White collar crimes. KW - White collar crimes. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129070906 AB - Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes that are committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena. The book delves into the 'grey zone' where illegal, unfair, unethical and 'shady' practices coalesce: from the retailers who see themselves as victims of customers who take unfair and often illegal advantage of generous offers, to the consumers sold 'useless' insurance and financial packages and 'defrauded' by 'small print' clauses.The authors outline the contours of the contemporary moral economy, driven and shaped by technological innovation as much as new economic policies, and ask, is a 'predatory society' emerging from the central sphere of0consumption? ER -