Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France. If Americans were profligate in their borrowing, the French were correspondingly frugal. Comparison of the two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not ...
Read More
Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France. If Americans were profligate in their borrowing, the French were correspondingly frugal. Comparison of the two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not primarily the consequence of its culture of consumption, as many writers have observed, nor directly a consequences of its less generous welfare state. It emerged instead from evolving coalitions between fledgling consumer lenders seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of non-governmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France, where a similar coalition did not emerge, consumer credit continued to be perceived as economically regressive and socially risky.
Read Less
Add this copy of Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and to cart. $28.11, new condition, Sold by Y-Not-Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rotherwas, HEREFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Consumer Lending in France and America to cart. $32.67, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Consumer Lending in France and America to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Consumer Lending in France and America to cart. $39.00, Sold by Books International rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and to cart. $39.20, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and to cart. $39.52, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Consumer Lending in France and America Credit and to cart. $60.44, new condition, Sold by Books International rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and to cart. $67.33, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
