Why does Father Christmas wear red and white? It's not for the reason you may think. In an updated version of an episode from 2018, Tim Harford tells the story of Christmas and consumerism.
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Stephen Nissenbaum The Battle For Christmas
Bruce David Forbes America鈥檚 Favorite Holidays
Joel Waldfogel Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn鈥檛 Buy Presents For The Holidays Princeton University Press Woodstock 2009
Waldfogel Scroogenomics
Harriet Beecher Stowe 鈥淐hristmas; or, The Good Fairy鈥� National Era 4 (26 December 1850)
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