broke? borrow!

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Thu Jul 6 11:56:49 PDT 2000


Martha Olney of U.C. Berkeley writes about consumer credit in the 1920s.

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Peter van Heusden wrote:
>
> >btw. has anyone written a history of
> >consumer credit from say, 1900 or 1920 to today?
>
> Haven't read this, only heard about it: Financing the American Dream:
> A Cultural History of Consumer Credit, by Lendol G. Calder (Princeton
> Univ Pr, 1999).
>
> A search for "consumer credit" on Amazon.com turns up mostly books
> about how to get out of debt, how to erase a bad credit history, and
> bankruptcy...
>
> Doug

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