The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward a Global History of Credit in Modern Consumer Societies

Chapter 2 Selling Televisions on Credit: The Rise of Consumer Loans in Postwar France

Chapter 3 Moral or Modern Marketing? Sparkassen and Consumer Credit in West Germany

Chapter 4 Credit in a Nation of Savers: The Growth of Consumer Borrowing in Japan

Chapter 5 The Business of Working-Class Credit: Subprime Markets in the United Kingdom since 1880

Chapter 7 Virtually Creditworthy: Privacy, the Right to Information, and Consumer Credit Reporting in West Germany, 1950–1985

Chapter 8 Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France

Chapter 9 French Consumer Credit Policy in the 1950s and 1960s: From Opposition to Control

Chapter 10 From Cradle to Bankruptcy? Credit Access and the American Welfare State

Chapter 11 Economic Agents and the Culture of Debt

Chapter 12 Japan and the Western Model: An Economist’s View of Cultures of Household Finance

Chapter 13 “Ahead a Good Deal”: Taking the Long View of Household Debt and Credit in American Life