Credit card nation : the consequences of America's addiction to credit

著者

    • Manning, Robert D.

書誌事項

Credit card nation : the consequences of America's addiction to credit

Robert D. Manning

Basic Books, c2000

  • : pbk

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全12件

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-393) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780465043668

内容説明

A stunning examination of how the credit card industry has changed the way Americans buy, loan, and live.. Credit Card Nation is part history and part expos of the damaging social and political consequences of America's increasing reliance on credit cards. Using original research and consumer interviews, Manning analyzes the growth of the credit card industry and its related businesses by looking at the story of its consumersthe people who use credit for convenience and those who rely on it for financial stability.In addition to providing a consumer history of credit card usage, Robert Manning analyzes the larger societal attitudes toward debt. The history of the credit card industry's expansion is one of the creation of a new class of consumers who utilize creditand its steep interest and penalty ratesfor economic survival. Manning discusses the societal toll that the "credit card nation" is placing on the young, the elderly, and all those in search of the "good life" marketed by the credit card and banking industries.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780465043675

内容説明

A fascinating and timely chronicle of America's tortured relationship to money-and the future crisis that looms as a result of our overwhelming reliance on credit.. Credit-card debt is choking American prosperity off at the neck. In Credit Card Nation, Robert D. Manning tells a fascinating story about the present and future consequences of credit dependence across all strata of U.S. society. Through extensive interviews with consumers, Manning talks to debtors, and to average Americans, affected by what Manning describes as our "credit card nation": an American juggernaut of indebtedness that spans personal, corporate, and governmental debt. 001 0465043690

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

ページトップへ