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The engine of enterprise : credit in America / Rowena Olegario.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olegario, Rowena, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commercial credit--United States--History.
- Commercial credit.
- Mercantile system--United States--History.
- Mercantile system.
- Finance--United States--History.
- Finance.
- Economic development--United States--History.
- Economic development.
- United States--Economic conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tracing credit from colonial times to the present and highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity, Rowena Olegario probes questions that have divided Americans: Who should have access to credit? How should creditors assess creditworthiness? How can borrowers and lenders accommodate to the risks of a credit-dependent economy?
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One. “The Sound of Your Hammer”
- Chapter Two. “To Be a Bankrupt Is Nothing”
- Chapter Three. “There Is Considerable Friction”
- Chapter Four. “To Open Up Mass Markets”
- Chapter Five. “Children, Dogs, Cats, and Moose Are Getting Credit Cards”
- Postscript
- Appendix
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674915480
- 0674915488
- OCLC:
- 936379735
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