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Debtor nation : the history of America in red ink /
Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making credit modern: the origins of the debt infrastructure in the 1920s
- Debt and recovery: New Deal housing policy and the making of national mortgage markets
- How commercial bankers discovered consumer credit: the Federal Housing Administration and personal loan departments
- War and credit: government regulation and changing credit practices
- Postwar consumer credit: borrowing for prosperity
- Legitimating the credit infrastructure: race, gender and credit access
- Securing debt in an insecure world
- Epilogue: debt as choice, debt as structure.