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The Engine of Enterprise : Credit in America / Rowena Olegario.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (284 p.) : 10 halftones, 5 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674915480
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.7/420973
LOC classification:
  • HG3754.5.U6 .O444 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. “The Sound of Your Hammer” -- Chapter Two. “To Be a Bankrupt Is Nothing” -- Chapter Three. “There Is Considerable Friction” -- Chapter Four. “To Open Up Mass Markets” -- Chapter Five. “Children, Dogs, Cats, and Moose Are Getting Credit Cards” -- Postscript -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Tracing credit from colonial times to the present and highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity, Rowena Olegario probes questions that have divided Americans: Who should have access to credit? How should creditors assess creditworthiness? How can borrowers and lenders accommodate to the risks of a credit-dependent economy?
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. “The Sound of Your Hammer” -- Chapter Two. “To Be a Bankrupt Is Nothing” -- Chapter Three. “There Is Considerable Friction” -- Chapter Four. “To Open Up Mass Markets” -- Chapter Five. “Children, Dogs, Cats, and Moose Are Getting Credit Cards” -- Postscript -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Tracing credit from colonial times to the present and highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity, Rowena Olegario probes questions that have divided Americans: Who should have access to credit? How should creditors assess creditworthiness? How can borrowers and lenders accommodate to the risks of a credit-dependent economy?

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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