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The Engine of Enterprise
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ISBN: 0674915488 9780674915480 9780674051140 0674051149 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Tracing credit from colonial times to the present and highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity, Rowena Olegario probes questions that have divided Americans: Who should have access to credit? How should creditors assess creditworthiness? How can borrowers and lenders accommodate to the risks of a credit-dependent economy?


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A Culture of Credit
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ISBN: 0674041631 9780674041639 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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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.

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