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Plastic Capitalism - Sean H. Vanatta

Plastic Capitalism

Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control

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Buch | Hardcover
416 Seiten
2024
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-24734-3 (ISBN)
CHF 45,80 inkl. MwSt
How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process
 
“As much as it enriches our scholarship, Vanatta’s history should also inspire our policymaking.”—Carey Mott, Los Angeles Review of Books
 
American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.
 
America’s consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after World War II, state and federal regulations ensured that many Americans enjoyed safe banks and inexpensive credit. Bankers, though, grew restless amid restrictive rules that made profits scarce. They experimented with new services and new technologies. They settled on credit cards, and in the 1960s mailed out reams of high-interest plastic to build a debt industry from scratch.
 
In the 1960s and ’70s consumers fought back, using federal and state policy to make credit cards safer and more affordable. But bankers found ways to work around local rules. Beginning in 1980, Citibank and its peers relocated their card plans to South Dakota and Delaware, states with the weakest consumer regulations, creating “on-shore” financial havens and drawing consumers into an exploitative credit economy over which they had little control. We live in the world these bankers made.

Sean H. Vanatta is a senior lecturer in financial history and policy at the University of Glasgow and a senior fellow at the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 11 b-w illus.
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Finanzierung
Betriebswirtschaft / Management Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre Bankbetriebslehre
ISBN-10 0-300-24734-6 / 0300247346
ISBN-13 978-0-300-24734-3 / 9780300247343
Zustand Neuware
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