found: Work cat.: Whatever happened to thrift? Why Americans don't save and what to do about it, c2008:t.p.; p. 2 (book attempts to reinvent thrift in the United States, to help people consume less and save more so they can be richer in future; problem of household savings)
found: Dictionary of economics, 2002(thrift: willingness to save, economy in spending)
found: Born losers : a history of failure in America, 2005:p. 260 (By the 1920s, character traits (honesty and thrift, for example) gave way to personality traits (style and assertiveness, say) as tickets to success)
found: Web 3(thrift; thrifty; thriftiness; frugality)
