Consumer Vulnerability and Welfare in Mortgage Contracts

by Irina Domurath

Book Overview

This book advocates a new way of thinking about mortgage contracts. This claim is based on the assumption that we currently live in a political economy in which consumer debt fulfils a social function. In the field of housing this is evidenced by the expansion of mortgage credit through which consumers are to purchase residential property as a means of social inclusion and personal welfare. It is suggested that contract law needs to adjust to this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509936939
• ISBN13: 9781509936939
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"