Debtor Nation
How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12680378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Hyman (0000-0002-9069-7299, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 614-618 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Enterprise & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1467-2227 • E-ISSN: 1467-2235 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/es/khn083 |
| OpenAlex | W4239284859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
It is difficult to consider debt as having a history, because it seems like debt might be, as one popular historian of money in 1917 described it, a “semi-slavery . . . [which] existed before the dawn of history, and it exists to-day.” People, in a certain sense, have always lent money to one another: to a wayward brother, across a saloon bar, to a coworker. But even by 1917, as that popular history was written in the midst of world war, the ancient personal relationship of personal debt was changing into a modern impersonal one. My dissertation is about how what we call personal debt, that is debt incurred by individuals and not by businesses, went from being owed to other people to being owed to institutions, and what this has meant at the largest level about American capitalism
Brother · Business · Capitalism · Creditor · Debt · Debtor · Economic history · Economics · Political science · Economic Theory and Policy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political Economy and Marxism · Finance · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2015 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |