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Debt for Sale : A Social History of the Credit Trap.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812200782
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Debt for SaleDDC classification:
  • 332.7/43
LOC classification:
  • HG3756.U5 -- W533 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Don't Charge This Book! -- 2. Calling All Convenience Users -- 3. Rustling Up Revolvers -- 4. Seducing Students -- 5. Pummeling the Poor -- 6. Search for Solutions -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: After September 11, 2001 ordinary Americans were urged to shop. Patriotic shopping would thwart terrorists, celebrate public life, and pull us back from the abyss of recession. We needed to be good citizen-consumers, but we knew that we could not really save America by shopping. Too many of us carried too much debt.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Don't Charge This Book! -- 2. Calling All Convenience Users -- 3. Rustling Up Revolvers -- 4. Seducing Students -- 5. Pummeling the Poor -- 6. Search for Solutions -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Acknowledgments.

After September 11, 2001 ordinary Americans were urged to shop. Patriotic shopping would thwart terrorists, celebrate public life, and pull us back from the abyss of recession. We needed to be good citizen-consumers, but we knew that we could not really save America by shopping. Too many of us carried too much debt.

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