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Creditworthy : a history of consumer surveillance and financial identity in America /
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life--yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are mult...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- "A bureau for the promotion of honesty" : the birth of systematic credit surveillance
- Coming to terms with credit : the nineteenth-century origins of consumer credit surveillance
- Credit workers unite : professionalization and the rise of a national credit infrastructure
- Running the credit gantlet : extracting, ordering, and communicating consumer information
- "You are judged by your credit" : teaching and targeting the consumer
- "File clerk's paradise" : postwar credit reporting on the eve of automation
- Encoding the consumer : the computerization of credit reporting and credit scoring
- Database panic : computerized credit surveillance and its discontents
- From debts to data : credit bureaus in the new information economy
- Epilogue.