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UNINA9910458448703321 |
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Autore |
Hyman Louis <1977-> |
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Titolo |
Debtor nation [[electronic resource] ] : the history of America in red ink / / Louis Hyman |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
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1-282-97644-3 |
9786612976445 |
1-4008-3840-1 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (391 p.) |
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Collana |
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Politics and society in twentieth-century America |
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Soggetti |
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Consumer credit - United States - History - 20th century |
Debt - United States - History - 20th century |
Loans, Personal - United States - History - 20th century |
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United States Economic conditions 20th century |
United States Economic policy 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Making credit modern: the origins of the debt infrastructure in the 1920s -- Debt and recovery: New Deal housing policy and the making of national mortgage markets -- How commercial bankers discovered consumer credit: the Federal Housing Administration and personal loan departments -- War and credit: government regulation and changing credit practices -- Postwar consumer credit: borrowing for prosperity -- Legitimating the credit infrastructure: race, gender and credit access -- Securing debt in an insecure world -- Epilogue: debt as choice, debt as structure. |
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Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did this happen? The first book to follow the history of personal debt in modern America, Debtor Nation traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twentieth century, following its |
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transformation from fringe to mainstream--thanks to federal policy, financial innovation, and retail competition. How did banks begin making personal loans to consumers during the Great Depression? Why did the government invent mortgage-backed securities? Why was all consumer credit, not just mortgages, tax deductible until 1986? Who invented the credit card? Examining the intersection of government and business in everyday life, Louis Hyman takes the reader behind the scenes of the institutions that made modern lending possible: the halls of Congress, the boardrooms of multinationals, and the back rooms of loan sharks. America's newfound indebtedness resulted not from a culture in decline, but from changes in the larger structure of American capitalism that were created, in part, by the choices of the powerful--choices that made lending money to facilitate consumption more profitable than lending to invest in expanded production. From the origins of car financing to the creation of subprime lending, Debtor Nation presents a nuanced history of consumer credit practices in the United States and shows how little loans became big business. |
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UNINA9910791365903321 |
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Assisting reproduction, testing genes [[electronic resource] ] : global encounters with new biotechnologies / / edited by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-62799-6 |
9786612627996 |
1-84545-941-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (303 p.) |
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Collana |
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Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality ; ; volume 18 |
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Human reproductive technology |
Biotechnology |
Human genetics |
Fertilization in vitro, Human |
Human embryo - Transplantation |
Surrogate motherhood |
Genetic Services |
Culture |
Reproductive Techniques |
Genetic Techniques |
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Genetic Testing |
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted |
Cross-Cultural Comparison |
Medicine |
Gynecology & Obstetrics |
Health & Biological Sciences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Title page-Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes; Contents; Introduction; Part I-Families and Beyond: Reproductive Technologies and New Social Orders; Chapter 1-East in West?; Chapter 2-Cultural Meanings of Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Chapter 3-Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Part II-Couples and Others: Assisting Reproduction with Third Parties; Chapter 4-The Traffic Between Women; Chapter 5-Law, Ethics, and Donor Technologies in Shia Iran; Chapter 6-Inappropriate Relations; Chapter 7-Contested Surrogacy and The Gender Order |
Part III-Testing Genes and Using Gells: Encounters with Advanced Genetic TechnologiesChapter 8-The Genesis of Embryos and Ethics in Vitro; Chapter 9-Assisted Life; Chapter 10-Doubt is the Mother of All Invention; Contributors; Index |
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Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume explores the application and impact of these advanced reproductive and genetic technologies in societies across the globe. By highlighting both the cross-cultural similarities and diverse meanings that technologies may assume as they enter multiple contexts, the book aims to foster understanding |
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