How the Other Half Banks : : Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy /

How the Other Half Banks : : Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy / / Mehrsa Baradaran.

The United States has two separate banking systems today—one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Baradaran, Mehrsa,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Governments and Banks
  • 2. History of the Social Contract
  • 3. Banks with a Soul
  • 4. How the Other Half Borrows
  • 5. Unbanked and Unwanted
  • 6. Changing the World without Changing the Rules
  • 7. Postal Banking
  • 8. A Public Option in Banking
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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