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A Culture of Credit
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgments vii
  3. Contents ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Mercantile Credit in Britain and America, 1700–1860 13
  6. 2. A “System of Espionage”: The Origins of the Credit-Reporting Firm 36
  7. 3. Character, Capacity, Capital: How to Be Creditworthy 80
  8. 4. Jewish Merchants and the Struggle over Transparency 119
  9. 5. Growth, Competition, Legitimacy: Credit Reporting in the Late Nineteenth Century 139
  10. 6. From Competition to Cooperation: The Birth of the Credit Man, 1890–1920 174
  11. Epilogue: Business Credit Reporting in the Twenty-First Century 201
  12. Notes 211
  13. Index 269
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041639-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgments vii
  3. Contents ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Mercantile Credit in Britain and America, 1700–1860 13
  6. 2. A “System of Espionage”: The Origins of the Credit-Reporting Firm 36
  7. 3. Character, Capacity, Capital: How to Be Creditworthy 80
  8. 4. Jewish Merchants and the Struggle over Transparency 119
  9. 5. Growth, Competition, Legitimacy: Credit Reporting in the Late Nineteenth Century 139
  10. 6. From Competition to Cooperation: The Birth of the Credit Man, 1890–1920 174
  11. Epilogue: Business Credit Reporting in the Twenty-First Century 201
  12. Notes 211
  13. Index 269
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