Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Making credit modern: the origins of the debt infrastructure in the 1920s
  • Debt and recovery: New Deal housing policy and the making of national mortgage markets
  • How commercial bankers discovered consumer credit: the Federal Housing Administration and personal loan departments
  • War and credit: government regulation and changing credit practices
  • Postwar consumer credit: borrowing for prosperity
  • Legitimating the credit infrastructure: race, gender and credit access
  • Securing debt in an insecure world
  • Epilogue: debt as choice, debt as structure.