The development of consumer credit in global perspective : business, regulation, and culture

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The development of consumer credit in global perspective : business, regulation, and culture

Title remainder

business, regulation, and culture

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jan Logemann

Creator

• Logemann, Jan L

Editor

• Logemann, Jan L

Subject

• Consumer credit -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
• Consumer credit -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Consumer credit -- Law and legislation -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
• Consumer credit -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Consumer credit -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Consumer credit -- Europe -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies, emphasizing comparative and transnational historical perspectives.

Member of

• Worlds of consumption

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Worlds of consumption

Summary expansion

The financial crisis of 2007-2009 underscored the centrality of consumer credit for modern economies. While some Europeans were quick to blame unsustainable American patterns of borrowing and consumption, consumer indebtedness became a growing problem in other countries, too. At the same time, important differences in cultures of credit were evident in the seemingly homogenous global world of finance and consumption. This book explores the history of consumer credit in Europe, the United States, and Japan. It focuses on the period after World War II but also reaches further back, and it integrates anthropological and economic perspectives