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City of Debtors

A Century of Fringe Finance

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Buch | Hardcover
376 Seiten
2018
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-97623-8 (ISBN)
54,80 inkl. MwSt
Since the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the U.S. have paid the highest price for credit. Anne Fleming tells how each generation has tackled the problem of fringe finance and its regulation. Her detailed work contributes to the broader, ongoing debate about the meaning of justice within capitalistic societies.
Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the United States have been asked to pay the greatest price for credit. Again and again, Americans have asked why the most fragile borrowers face the highest costs for access to the smallest loans. To protect low-wage workers in need of credit, reformers have repeatedly turned to law, only to face the vexing question of where to draw the line between necessary protection and overreaching paternalism.

City of Debtors shows how each generation of Americans has tackled the problem of fringe finance, using law to redefine the meaning of justice within capitalism for those on the economic margins. Anne Fleming tells the story of the small-sum lending industry’s growth and regulation from the ground up, following the people who navigated the market for small loans and those who shaped its development at the state and local level. Fleming’s focus on the city and state of New York, which served as incubators for numerous lending reforms that later spread throughout the nation, differentiates her approach from work that has centered on federal regulation. It also reveals the overlooked challenges of governing a modern financial industry within a federalist framework.

Fleming’s detailed work contributes to the broader and ongoing debate about the meaning of justice within capitalistic societies, by exploring the fault line in the landscape of capitalism where poverty, the welfare state, and consumer credit converge.

Anne Fleming was Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 table
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 689 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Finanzierung
Betriebswirtschaft / Management Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre Bankbetriebslehre
ISBN-10 0-674-97623-1 / 0674976231
ISBN-13 978-0-674-97623-8 / 9780674976238
Zustand Neuware
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