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- catalog abstract ""The 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit practices--the subject of James Grant's brilliant, clear-eyed history of American finance. Two long-running trends converged in the 1980s to create one of our greatest speculative booms: the democratization of credit and the socialization of risk. At the turn of the century, it was almost impossible for the average working person to get a loan. In the 1980s, it was almost impossible to refuse one. As the pace of lending grew, the government undertook to bear more and more of the creditors' risk--a pattern, begun in the Progressive era, which reached full flower in the "conservative" administration of Ronald Reagan. Based on original scholarship as well as firsthand observation, Grant's book puts our recent love affair with debt in an entirely fresh, often chilling, perspective. The result is required--and wickedly entertaining--reading for everyone who wants or needs to understand how the world really works"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3757168.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description ""The 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit practices--the subject of James Grant's brilliant, clear-eyed history of American finance. Two long-running trends converged in the 1980s to create one of our greatest speculative booms: the democratization of credit and the socialization of risk. At the turn of the century, it was almost impossible for the average working person to get a loan. In the 1980s, it was almost impossible to refuse one. As the pace of lending grew, the government undertook to bear more and more of the creditors' risk--a pattern, begun in the Progressive era, which reached full flower in the "conservative" administration of Ronald Reagan.".
- catalog description "Based on original scholarship as well as firsthand observation, Grant's book puts our recent love affair with debt in an entirely fresh, often chilling, perspective. The result is required--and wickedly entertaining--reading for everyone who wants or needs to understand how the world really works"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Gloomy Sewell -- Mr. Baker's bank -- The timid bank -- Democratizing credit -- Banking on confidence -- Loans for nearly everyone -- The welfare state of credit -- False alarms -- It's a wonderful world -- "Crooked banker found hanged" -- Wild and woolly.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-490) and index.".
- catalog description "New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year".
- catalog extent "viii, 513 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0374169799 :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, [N.Y.] : Farrar Straus Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Banks and banking United States History.".
- catalog subject "Credit United States History.".
- catalog subject "Credit control United States History.".
- catalog subject "Finance United States History.".
- catalog subject "HG3729.U5 G66 1992".
- catalog subject "Loans United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Gloomy Sewell -- Mr. Baker's bank -- The timid bank -- Democratizing credit -- Banking on confidence -- Loans for nearly everyone -- The welfare state of credit -- False alarms -- It's a wonderful world -- "Crooked banker found hanged" -- Wild and woolly.".
- catalog title "Money of the mind : borrowing and lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken / James Grant.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".