Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addiction to Credit - Softcover

Manning, Robert

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9780465043675: Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addiction to Credit

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ISBN 10: 0465043674 ISBN 13: 9780465043675

Publisher: Basic Books, 2001

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A fascinating and timely chronicle of America's tortured relationship to money-and the future crisis that looms as a result of our overwhelming reliance on credit.. Credit-card debt is choking American prosperity off at the neck. In Credit Card Nation, Robert D. Manning tells a fascinating story about the present and future consequences of credit dependence across all strata of U.S. society. Through extensive interviews with consumers, Manning talks to debtors, and to average Americans, affected by what Manning describes as our "credit card nation": an American juggernaut of indebtedness that spans personal, corporate, and governmental debt. 001 0465043690

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Robert D. Manning is the Caroline Werner Gannett Professor of the Humanities at Rochester Institute of Technology. An economic sociologist who specializes in race relations and labor market issues, he is the recent recipient of the Sociological Practice Association's Robert Ezra Park award in recognition of his contribution to social policy. He lives in Rochester, New York.

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