Taming the sharks : towards a cure for the high-cost credit market / Christopher L. Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Christopher L.

Series:

Series on law, politics, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumer credit.

Physical Description:

451 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2004.

Contents:

Debt fever : an introduction to high-cost consumer credit

The short story of the long history of high-cost credit policy

A survey of America's struggle to control high-cost lending : echoes of the past and confusion in the present

The unique promise of disclosure law and the trouble with shopping : imperfect information and debt fever

Deciding to borrow : irrational decisions in the high-stakes credit gamble

Families and communities : production externalities and the spillover effect in high-cost debt transactions

Information-based regulation of high-cost credit : two policy case studies on learning how to learn

Towards a cure : a high-cost credit policy agenda for the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-439) and index.

ISBN:

1931968098

OCLC:

54279792