Consumer lending in France and America : credit and welfare / Gunnar Trumbull, Harvard Business School.

"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...

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Main Author:	Trumbull, Gunnar
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Consumer credit > United States. Consumer credit > France. Bank loans > United States. Bank loans > France. Public welfare > France. Public welfare > United States. Bank loans. Consumer credit. Public welfare. France. United States. Frankreich. Amerika.