A Culture of Credit : Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business / Rowena Olegario.
2009
HG3754.5.U6 O44 2006eb
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Title
A Culture of Credit : Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business / Rowena Olegario.
Author
Olegario, Rowena, author.
ISBN
9780674041639
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (286 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674041639 doi
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HG3754.5.U6 O44 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
332.7/42097309034
Summary
In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available.
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Harvard Studies in Business History ; 50
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
1. Mercantile Credit in Britain and America, 1700-1860
2. A "System of Espionage": The Origins of the Credit-Reporting Firm
3. Character, Capacity, Capital: How to Be Creditworthy
4. Jewish Merchants and the Struggle over Transparency
5. Growth, Competition, Legitimacy: Credit Reporting in the Late Nineteenth Century
6. From Competition to Cooperation: The Birth of the Credit Man, 1890-1920
Epilogue: Business Credit Reporting in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
1. Mercantile Credit in Britain and America, 1700-1860
2. A "System of Espionage": The Origins of the Credit-Reporting Firm
3. Character, Capacity, Capital: How to Be Creditworthy
4. Jewish Merchants and the Struggle over Transparency
5. Growth, Competition, Legitimacy: Credit Reporting in the Late Nineteenth Century
6. From Competition to Cooperation: The Birth of the Credit Man, 1890-1920
Epilogue: Business Credit Reporting in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index