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"Bruce Carruthers organizes his analysis around different types of credit, offering a roughly chronological discussion of each. The U.S. has always had an economy based on promises, but the manner in which questions about trust and trustworthiness have been posed and answered has evolved in important ways. Their evolution and expansion undergirded the rise of the modern credit economy, but it wasn't a smooth ride forward. Financial crises signalled the widespread collapse of promises, and a collective disbelief in their credibility. Frequently, these collapses motivated public and private attempts to build new institutional scaffolding in support of promises: the 1837 crisis prompted the development of credit ratings; the depression of the 1890s justified passage of a permanent bankruptcy law; the 1907 crisis led to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System; and the Great Depression led to a multitude of public policies in support of financial promises. At various points, political groups perceived the financial system to be deeply unfair, one that privileged some over others. During the 1880s and 1890s, agrarian groups and populists attacked a monetary and banking system that failed to give them adequate credit. During the 1960s and 1970s, women and minorities criticized a discriminatory financial system that denied them full access to consumer and mortgage credit. In The Economy of Promises, Carruthers describes the changes that have occurred, spell out their implications, and explain their significance"--

Credit --- Trust --- History. --- Economic aspects. --- Asset. --- Bank charge. --- Bank. --- Bond (finance). --- Business model. --- Capital adequacy ratio. --- Capital employed. --- Capital expenditure. --- Capital intensity. --- Cash crop. --- Cash flow. --- Commerce Clause. --- Commercial Credit. --- Commodity market. --- Commodity. --- Competition (economics). --- Consumerism. --- Credit (finance). --- Credit Insurance. --- Credit risk. --- Creditor. --- Crony capitalism. --- Currency. --- Current Price. --- Debt limit. --- Debt. --- Debtor. --- Diversification (finance). --- Economic Life. --- Economic development. --- Economic forecasting. --- Economic indicator. --- Economic interventionism. --- Economic policy. --- Economic sector. --- Economics. --- Economy of the United States. --- Economy. --- Employment. --- Exchange rate. --- Fee Income. --- Financial capital. --- Financial inclusion. --- Financial institution. --- Financial instrument. --- Financial intermediary. --- Financial services. --- Financial statement. --- Financial technology. --- Financier. --- Floating interest rate. --- Gross (economics). --- Gross Earnings. --- Gross domestic product. --- Guaranteed Loan. --- Income. --- Inflation. --- Insider Lending. --- Interest rate. --- Investment fund. --- Investment strategy. --- Investor. --- Margin (finance). --- Mark-to-market accounting. --- Market liquidity. --- Market price. --- Market rate. --- Market value. --- Mass production. --- Measures of national income and output. --- Monetarism. --- Money market account. --- Money market. --- Mortgage loan. --- Net capital rule. --- Net income. --- Payment. --- Policy. --- Price index. --- Pricing. --- Prime rate. --- Public finance. --- Purchase Price. --- Purchasing power. --- Rate of profit. --- Rate of return. --- Real interest rate. --- Relative value (economics). --- Repayment. --- Revenue bond. --- Securitization. --- Shareholder. --- Subsidy. --- Supply-side economics. --- Tax bracket. --- Tax reform. --- Trade credit. --- Value (economics). --- Working capital. --- World economy.