The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective
Business, Regulation, and Culture
Published on 27. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 295 pages
978-1-349-34386-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies, emphasizing comparative and transnational historical perspectives.
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Edition
1st ed. 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XI, 295 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-34386-7 (9781349343867)
DOI
10.1057/9781137062079
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The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective
Business, Regulation, and Culture
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Business, Regulation, and Culture
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JAN LOGEMANN Research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., USA, and director of the project 'Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980.' His work focuses on modern consumer societies and includes the forthcoming book, Trams or Tailfins: Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States.
Content
Towards a Global History of Credit in Modern Consumer Societies; J.Logemann PART I: LENDERS AND LENDING PRACTICES Selling Televisions on Credit: The Rise of Consumer Credit in Postwar France; I.Gaillard Moral or Modern Marketing? Sparkassen and Consumer Credit in West Germany; R.Belvederesi-Kochs Credit in a Nation of Savers: The Growth of Consumer Borrowing in Japan; A.Gordon PART II: BORROWERS AND CREDIT ACCESS The Business of Working-Class Credit: Subprime Markets in the United Kingdom since 1880; S.O'Connell American Women's Struggle to End Credit Discrimination in the Twentieth Century; L.Bowdish Virtually Creditworthy: Privacy, the Right to Information, and Consumer Credit Reporting in West Germany, 1950-1985; L.Frohman PART III: STATE REGULATION AND CREDIT POLICIES Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France; G.Trumbull French Consumer Credit Policy in the 1950s and 1960s: From Opposition to Control; S.Effosse From Cradle to Bankruptcy? Credit Access and the American Welfare State; J.Logemann PART IV: CULTURES OF CREDIT Economic Agents and the Culture of Debt; S.Meyer Japan and the Western Model: An Economist's View of Cultures of Household Finance; C.Y.Horioka 'Ahead a Good Deal': Taking the Long View of Household Debt and Credit in American Life; L.Calder