| Description |
1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Fishing for sharks and governing small loans -- Consuming by installments : the rise of retail credit -- Assembling the automobile, reassembling thrift -- Mass credit, mass society, and their discontents -- Plastic credit, plastic lifestyles -- Credit reporting and consumer surveillance -- Risk and technologies of credit scoring -- Borrowing on the fringe : the fate of the risky -- Risk, identity, and the consumer -- "See how lenders see you" : from actuarial to subjective governance -- Securing the self -- Conclusion : taking life |
| Summary |
It is commonly imagined that in recent years the rampant growth of consumer credit has lured American consumers into a crippling state of indebtedness, a state that has upended old cultural values of Puritan thrift and stimulated a frenzy of consumption. Drawing on the sociological concept of 'government' and informed by a historical perspective, Marron presents a much more complex and nuanced reality. From its early antecedents in nineteenth century salary lending and instalment selling, she shows how the emergence and growth of consumer credit in the United States have always been subject to shifting regimes of control and regulation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Consumer credit -- Social aspects -- United States
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Consumer credit -- United States
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Development studies -- USA.
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Society & social sciences -- USA.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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Economics.
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Consumer credit
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Consumer credit -- Social aspects
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Konsumentenkredit
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009013907 |
| ISBN |
9780230101517 |
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0230101518 |
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023061518X |
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9780230615182 |
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1282742302 |
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9781282742307 |
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9781349378890 |
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1349378895 |
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