Banking for People : Social Banking and New Poverty, Consumer Debts and Unemployment in Europe - National Reports / Janet Ford, Udo Reifner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ford, Janet, editor.

Reifner, Udo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking--Europe--Congresses.

Banks and banking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 672 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents in Brief

Contents

General Introduction / Ford, Janet / Reifner, Udo

European Declaration for Social Consumer Rights

Volume I: Social Banking and New Poverty

Part I: Economic Development and Private Indebtedness

Chapter 1. Social Banking and New Poverty - Towards a New Approach in Law and Economics / Reifner, Udo

Chapter 2. Towards a Progressive Market / Ekins, Paul

Chapter 3. Economics and social problems / Rothschild, Kurt W.

Chapter 4. Consumer Credit and Human Capital in Germany / Reis, Claus

Chapter 5. Credit, Debt and Financial Control in Great Britain / Conaty, Pat

Chapter 6. Financial Services - Who Will Gain from the Single Market? / Vogler, Heinz

Part II: New Technologies and Consumer Debts

Chapter 7. Credit Cards, New Technology and Consumer Debt / Mitchell, Jeremy

Chapter 8. Indebtedness by Credit Cards in the Federal Republic of Germany? / Godschalk, Hugo T. C.

Chapter 9. Credit Card Mania in America / Caplovitz, David

Part III: Trade Unions, Consumer Unions and the Poor

Chapter 10. Whose Agenda? Whose Resources? Whose Initiative? / Gibson, Tony

Chapter 11. Trade-Unions, Unemployment and the Unemployed in Germany / Mattfeldt, Harald

Chapter 12. Consumer Organizations and the Struggle Against Poverty - The Example of Konsumenten Kontakt in the Netherlands / Nagel, K.P.

Chapter 13. Credit for Poor People - Abolishing or Solving the Problem? / Simpson, Robin

Part IV: Ethical Banking - New Forms of a Social Market Economy

Chapter 14. Ethical Banking / Ekins, Paul

Chapter 15. Alternative Banking and Ethical Investment / Dauncey, Guy

Chapter 16. Bright Ideas and Empty Pockets: Overview of Development Banking in the UK / Dabson, Brian

Chapter 17. Shorebank Corporation: A Private Sector Banking Initiative to Renew Distressed Communities / Shapiro, Joan

Chapter 18. The Mondragon Bank and the Cooperative Movement in Euskadia / Ortiz de Zarate, Antonio Matías / Galdos Loyola, Elena

Chapter 19. Socially Directed Investment - And its Potential Role in Local Development / Robertson, James

Part V. Social Discrimination and Over-Indebtedness

Chapter 20. Changing Labour Market Structures and Over-Indebtedness / Ford, Janet

Chapter 21. Indebtedness of Offenders / Freytag, Harald

Chapter 22. Divorce and Consumer Debts in Germany: The Unequal Allocation of Risks Between Women and Men / Böhmcker, Susanne

Part VI: Housing Debts

Chapter 23. Introduction / Ford, Janet

Chapter 24. Mortgage Loans: Some Consumer Concerns

Chapter 25. Buyers of Residential Property - Their Situation in the Province of Grande-Synthe

Chapter 26. Distressed Constructional Financing / Kaatz, Ruth / Reifner, Udo / Sönksen, Inken / Schulz-Rackoll, Rolf

Chapter 27. Mortgage Debt in the United Kingdom / Johnson, Simon

Part VII: Personal Bankruptcy

Chapter 28. Personal Bankruptcy in America / Caplovitz, David

Chapter 29. Discharge for Bankrupt Individuals under the German Bankruptcy Law Reform / Balz, Manfred

Chapter 30. Prospects for Statutory Consumer Debts Arrangement in the Netherlands / Huls, Nick

Volume II: Overdebtedness, Unemployment and Policy Responses - National Reports

Chapter 31. The Social Costs of Europe - General Report on Consumer Debts in Europe / Ford, Janet / Morin, Anne / Martin, Chantal / Dejemeppe, Pierre / Reifner, Udo / Bourgoignie, Thierry

Chapter 32. Debts and Depression - A Survey of Austrian Debtors and the Unemployed / Mitter, Gemot / Schönbauer, Ulrich / Wimmer, Sigrid / Repl, Jutta / Graf, Georg / Mayer, Gottfried / Hanak, Gerhard / Morawetz, Inge

Chapter 33. Consumer Credit in Belgium - Old Laws and New Problems / Domont-Naert, Françoise / Dejemeppe, Pierre

Chapter 34. Unemployment, Debt and the Legal Principle of 'Social Force Majeure' in Finland / Wilhelmsson, Thomas

Chapter 35. Minimum Wages, Rate Ceilings and Social Solidarity against Poverty - Unemployment and Consumer Debts in France / Auclair, Elizabeth

Chapter 36. The Private Debt Crisis in a Prosperous Environment: Germany / Reifner, Udo / Eichler-Weiskorn, Thomas

Chapter 37. Private and Public Concerns - Unemployment, Credit and Debt in Britain: An Overview / Conaty, Pat / Ford, Janet / Johnson, Simon / Kruse, John / Woodall, Phil

Chapter 38. From Savings to Credit - Unemployment and Consumer Debts in Italy

Chapter 39. Careful Lenders and Social Security - Trends in Unemployment, Consumer Credit and Debt in the Netherlands / Rodrigues, Peter R. / Jan Schep, Gerrit / Huls, Nick J.H.

Chapter 40. Legal Protection for the Overindebted and Unemployed in Norway / Petter Graver, Hans

Chapter 41. Poverty and Debts - The Situation of Welfare Recipients and Debtors in Default in Sweden / Kauukonen, Katariina

Chapter 42. 'Good' and 'Bad' Debts - Debtors' Protection and Pressure for Reform in Switzerland / Gründler, Peter

Chapter 43. Consumer Credit Protection for Low Risk Consumers in a Free Market Economy - The US-Consumer Credit Protection Law / Spagnole, John A.

Bibliography

Addresses of Associations and Institutions which Support Social Banking

Authors

Index

Index: Names and Organisations

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9783110846034

3110846039

OCLC:

1102808693