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A Culture of Credit : Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Studies in Business History SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041639
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Culture of CreditDDC classification:
  • 332.7/42097309034
LOC classification:
  • HG3754
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Mercantile Credit in Britain and America, 1700-1860 -- 2. A "System of Espionage": The Origins of the Credit-Reporting Firm -- 3. Character, Capacity, Capital: How to Be Creditworthy -- 4. Jewish Merchants and the Struggle over Transparency -- 5. Growth, Competition, Legitimacy: Credit Reporting in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 6. From Competition to Cooperation: The Birth of the Credit Man, 1890-1920 -- Epilogue: Business Credit Reporting in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Mercantile Credit in Britain and America, 1700-1860 -- 2. A "System of Espionage": The Origins of the Credit-Reporting Firm -- 3. Character, Capacity, Capital: How to Be Creditworthy -- 4. Jewish Merchants and the Struggle over Transparency -- 5. Growth, Competition, Legitimacy: Credit Reporting in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 6. From Competition to Cooperation: The Birth of the Credit Man, 1890-1920 -- Epilogue: Business Credit Reporting in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Index.

In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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