The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America

by Bruce G. Carruthers

Book Overview

A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America--and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots

The Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing and surveying economic and social history, Bruce Carruthers examines how issues of trust stitch together the modern U.S. economy. In the case of credit, that trust involves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069123809X
• ISBN13: 9780691238098
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"