The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective

Introduction: Toward a Global History of Credit in Modern Consumer Societies

• Jan Logemann

Front Matter

Selling Televisions on Credit: The Rise of Consumer Loans in Postwar France

• Isabelle Gaillard

Moral or Modern Marketing? Sparkassen and Consumer Credit in West Germany

• Rebecca Belvederesi-Kochs

Credit in a Nation of Savers: The Growth of Consumer Borrowing in Japan

• Andrew Gordon

Front Matter

The Business of Working-Class Credit: Subprime Markets in the United Kingdom since 1880

• Sean O’Connell

American Women’s Struggle to End Credit Discrimination in the Twentieth Century

• Lawrence Bowdish

Virtually Creditworthy: Privacy, the Right to Information, and Consumer Credit Reporting in West Germany, 1950–1985

• Larry Frohman

Front Matter

Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France

• Gunnar Trumbull

French Consumer Credit Policy in the 1950s and 1960s: From Opposition to Control

• Sabine Effosse

From Cradle to Bankruptcy? Credit Access and the American Welfare State

• Jan Logemann

Front Matter

Economic Agents and the Culture of Debt

• Silke Meyer

Japan and the Western Model: An Economist’s View of Cultures of Household Finance

• Charles Yuji Horioka

“Ahead a Good Deal”: Taking the Long View of Household Debt and Credit in American Life

• Lendol Calder