Bruce G. Carruthers: The Economy of Promises

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Cover: 9780691235387 | The Economy of Promises | Trust, Power, and Credit in America | Buch

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A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America-and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-notsThe Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing and surveying economic and social history, Bruce Carruthers examines how issues of trust stitch together the modern U.S. economy. In the case of credit, that trust involves a commitment by debtors to repay money they have borrowed from lenders. Each promise poses a fundamental question: why does the lender trust the borrower?The book tracks the dramatic shift from personal qualitative judgments to the impersonal quantitative measurements of credit scores and ratings, which make lending on a much greater scale possible. It discusses how lending is shaped by the shadow of failure, and the possibility that borrowers will break their promises and fail to repay their debts. It reveals how credit markets have been shaped by public policy, regulatory changes, and various political factors. And, crucially, it explains how credit interacts with economic inequality, contributing to vast and enduring racial and gender differences-which are only exacerbated by the widespread use of credit scores and ratings for "big data" and algorithmic decision-making. Bringing to life the complicated and abstract terrain of human interaction we call the economy, The Economy of Promises is an important study of the tangle of indebtedness that, for better or worse, shapes and defines American lives.

Über den Autor

Bruce G. Carruthers is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution (Princeton) and the coauthor of, among other books, Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach and Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	408
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780691235387
ISBN-10:	0691235384
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Carruthers, Bruce G.
Hersteller:	Princeton University Press
Maße:	240 x 157 x 36 mm
Von/Mit:	Bruce G. Carruthers
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.10.2022
Gewicht:	0,726 kg

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