After a long period of prosperity and steady ecomic growth, the world's leading ecomies are w in crisis, and although there will be debate about its origins, the scale and seriousness of the crisis is in doubt. There is also doubt that excessive amounts of consumer credit, allied to a weak understanding of how globalised credit markets might react to a crisis, have played a significant part. This book, which is primarily about credit, debt and the trouble they have led to, is written by authors who have specialised in researching into over-indebtedness, that is, situations in which an individual's debt burden has become overwhelming. For these authors the plight of individuals is a primary concern, but the wider issue is how credit is used and how it changes societies. The essays in this volume, addressing topics which are fundamental to our understanding of the current crisis, range widely across the whole sector of consumer finance, including mortgages, 'credit-binges', the regulation of consumer lending, insolvency, repayment plans, debt counselling and much more besides. The conclusions drawn from the book are equally wide-ranging, but above all the lesson learned from these essays is that the financialisation of contemporary life ensures that issues of the appropriate role of credit remain of critical importance in society.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-10
1841132586
ISBN-13
9781841132587
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95632654
Product Key Features
Format
With Printed Dust Jacket, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Finance & Accounting
Dimensions
Weight
805g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
25mm
Edited by
William C. Whitford, Johanna Niemi, Iain Ramsay
First Published
2009
Content Note
1, Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Johanna Niemi is Senior Researcher at National Research Institute of Legal Policy, Helsinki, Finland. Iain Ramsay is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury. William C Whitford is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.