A debtor world : interdisciplinary perspectives on debt /
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| Imprint: | Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. |
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| Description: | x, 314 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8953525 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Social Institutions That Create an Indebted World
- 1. Debt, Credit, and Poverty in Early Modern England
- 2. Debt and the Simulation of Social Class
- 3. "Hyperconsumption" and "Hyperdebt": A "Hypercritical" Analysis
- Part II. Decisions to Lend
- 4. Lender Incentives, Credit Risk, and Securitization: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
- 5. How and Why Credit Assessors "Get it Wrong" When Judging the Risk of Borrowers: Past and Present Evidence at Home and Abroad
- Part III. Decisions to Borrow
- 6. The Psychology of Debt in Poor Households in Britain
- 7. Brain, Decision, and Debt
- 8. The Limits of Enhanced Disclosure in Bankruptcy Law: Anticipated and Experienced Emotion
- Part IV. Political and Legal Responses to Overindebtedness
- 9. The Virtue of Consumer Bankruptcy
- 10. Missing Debtors: National Lawmaking and Global Norm-Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Regimes
- 11. Balance of Knowledge
- Index
