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Author Hyman, Louis, 1977-

Title Debtor nation : the history of America in red ink / Louis Hyman
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource ([ix], 378 pages) : illustrations
Series Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Contents 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
Summary 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 this happen? The first book to follow the history of personal debt in modern America, Debtor Nation traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twentieth century, following its transformation from fringe to mainstream--thanks to federal policy, financial innovation, and retail competition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-364 and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Consumer credit -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Debt -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Loans, Personal -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Consumer credit
Debt
Economic history
Economic policy
Loans, Personal
Consumentenkrediet.
Schulden.
Persoonlijke leningen.
SUBJECT United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001975
United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001961
Subject United States
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form History
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010031594
ISBN 1400838401
9781400838400
0691156166
9780691156163
9786612976445
6612976446
Other Titles History of America in red ink