Borrow
Subtitle: the way of debt in modern America
By: Louis Hyman
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780307741684; 9780307744906
Subjects: Economic conditions; Personal Loans; Economic policy; Consumer credit; Debt; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: everything old is new again; title: When personal debt was really business debt (2000 BC-1920 AD); title: Everybody paid cash for the Model T (1908-1929); title: Fannie Mae can save America (1924-1939); title: How I learned to stop worrying and love the debt (1945-1960); title: Discounted goods and distributed credit (1959-1970); title: Bringing good things to life (1970-1985); title: If only the gnomes had known: the hidden world of securitization (1968-1986); title: The house of credit cards (1986-2008); title: Conclusion: turning the magic of borrowing into the reality of prosperity.