Debtor nation the history of America in red ink /

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Autore principale: Hyman, Louis, 1977-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Serie:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Sommario:
  • 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.