A Culture of Credit: embedding trust and transparency in American business
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A Culture of Credit: embedding trust and transparency in American business
$320.00
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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. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available.
Author(s): Rowena OLEGARIO, Rowena Olegario
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Pages: 287
Categories: Business & Economics