Debtor nation
Subtitle: the history of America in red ink
By: Louis Hyman
Series: Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780691140681
Subjects: Economic conditions; Personal Loans; Economic policy; Consumer credit; Debt; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-364] and index.
Table of contents: title: Making credit modern: the origins of the debt infrastructure in the 1920s; title: Debt and recovery: New Deal housing policy and the making of national mortgage markets; title: How commercial bankers discovered consumer credit: the Federal Housing Administration and personal loan departments; title: War and credit: government regulation and changing credit practices; title: Postwar consumer credit: borrowing for prosperity; title: Legitimating the credit infrastructure: race, gender and credit access; title: Securing debt in an insecure world; title: Epilogue: debt as choice, debt as structure.