A Culture of Credit : Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business.
Title:
A Culture of Credit : Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business.
Author:
Olegario, Rowena.
ISBN:
9780674041639
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Series:
Harvard Studies in Business History Ser. ; v.50
Harvard Studies in Business History Ser.
Contents:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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