A Culture of Credit : : Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business / / Rowena Olegario.
In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario...
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Olegario, Rowena, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Culture of Credit : Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business / Rowena Olegario. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009] ©2006 1 online resource (286 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Harvard Studies in Business History ; 50 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Commercial credit History 19th century United States. Commercial credit United States History 19th century. Corporate image History 19th century United States. Corporate image United States History 19th century. Crédit commercial Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis. Entreprises Image Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis United States Verenigde Staten. Mercantile system History 19th century United States. Mercantile system United States History 19th century. Mercantilisme Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674023406 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041639 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674041639 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674041639.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- 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 |
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