Banking for People : : Social Banking and New Poverty, Consumer Debts and Unemployment in Europe - National Reports / / ed. by Janet Ford, Udo Reifner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Auclair, Elizabeth,; Balz, Manfred,; Bourgoignie, Thierry,; Böhmcker, Susanne,; Caplovitz, David,; Conaty, Pat,; Dabson, Brian,; Dauncey, Guy,; Dejemeppe, Pierre,; Domont-Naert, Françoise,; Eichler-Weiskorn, Thomas,; Ekins, Paul,; Ford, Janet,; Freytag, Harald,; Galdos Loyola, Elena,; Gibson, Tony,; Godschalk, Hugo T. C.,; Graf, Georg,; Gründler, Peter,; Hanak, Gerhard,; Huls, Nick J.H.,; Huls, Nick,; Jan Schep, Gerrit,; Johnson, Simon,; Kaatz, Ruth,; Kauukonen, Katariina,; Kruse, John,; Martin, Chantal,; Mattfeldt, Harald,; Mayer, Gottfried,; Mitchell, Jeremy,; Mitter, Gemot,; Morawetz, Inge,; Morin, Anne,; Nagel, K.P.,; Ortiz de Zarate, Antonio Matías,; Petter Graver, Hans,; Reifner, Udo,; Reis, Claus,; Repl, Jutta,; Robertson, James,; Rodrigues, Peter R.,; Rothschild, Kurt W.,; Schulz-Rackoll, Rolf,; Schönbauer, Ulrich,; Shapiro, Joan,; Simpson, Robin,; Spagnole, John A.,; Sönksen, Inken,; Vogler, Heinz,; Wilhelmsson, Thomas,; Wimmer, Sigrid,; Woodall, Phil,
• HerausgeberIn: Ford, Janet,; Reifner, Udo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents in Brief --; Contents --; General Introduction --; European Declaration for Social Consumer Rights --; Volume I: Social Banking and New Poverty --; Part I: Economic Development and Private Indebtedness --; Chapter 1. Social Banking and New Poverty - Towards a New Approach in Law and Economics --; Chapter 2. Towards a Progressive Market --; Chapter 3. Economics and social problems --; Chapter 4. Consumer Credit and Human Capital in Germany --; Chapter 5. Credit, Debt and Financial Control in Great Britain --; Chapter 6. Financial Services - Who Will Gain from the Single Market? --; Part II: New Technologies and Consumer Debts --; Chapter 7. Credit Cards, New Technology and Consumer Debt --; Chapter 8. Indebtedness by Credit Cards in the Federal Republic of Germany? --; Chapter 9. Credit Card Mania in America --; Part III: Trade Unions, Consumer Unions and the Poor --; Chapter 10. Whose Agenda? Whose Resources? Whose Initiative? --; Chapter 11. Trade-Unions, Unemployment and the Unemployed in Germany --; Chapter 12. Consumer Organizations and the Struggle Against Poverty - The Example of Konsumenten Kontakt in the Netherlands --; Chapter 13. Credit for Poor People - Abolishing or Solving the Problem? --; Part IV: Ethical Banking - New Forms of a Social Market Economy --; Chapter 14. Ethical Banking --; Chapter 15. Alternative Banking and Ethical Investment --; Chapter 16. Bright Ideas and Empty Pockets: Overview of Development Banking in the UK --; Chapter 17. Shorebank Corporation: A Private Sector Banking Initiative to Renew Distressed Communities --; Chapter 18. The Mondragon Bank and the Cooperative Movement in Euskadia --; Chapter 19. Socially Directed Investment - And its Potential Role in Local Development --; Part V. Social Discrimination and Over-Indebtedness --; Chapter 20. Changing Labour Market Structures and Over-Indebtedness --; Chapter 21. Indebtedness of Offenders --; Chapter 22. Divorce and Consumer Debts in Germany: The Unequal Allocation of Risks Between Women and Men --; Part VI: Housing Debts --; Chapter 23. Introduction --; Chapter 24. Mortgage Loans: Some Consumer Concerns --; Chapter 25. Buyers of Residential Property - Their Situation in the Province of Grande-Synthe --; Chapter 26. Distressed Constructional Financing --; Chapter 27. Mortgage Debt in the United Kingdom --; Part VII: Personal Bankruptcy --; Chapter 28. Personal Bankruptcy in America --; Chapter 29. Discharge for Bankrupt Individuals under the German Bankruptcy Law Reform --; Chapter 30. Prospects for Statutory Consumer Debts Arrangement in the Netherlands --; Volume II: Overdebtedness, Unemployment and Policy Responses - National Reports --; Chapter 31. The Social Costs of Europe - General Report on Consumer Debts in Europe --; Chapter 32. Debts and Depression - A Survey of Austrian Debtors and the Unemployed --; Chapter 33. Consumer Credit in Belgium - Old Laws and New Problems --; Chapter 34. Unemployment, Debt and the Legal Principle of 'Social Force Majeure' in Finland --; Chapter 35. Minimum Wages, Rate Ceilings and Social Solidarity against Poverty - Unemployment and Consumer Debts in France --; Chapter 36. The Private Debt Crisis in a Prosperous Environment: Germany --; Chapter 37. Private and Public Concerns - Unemployment, Credit and Debt in Britain: An Overview --; Chapter 38. From Savings to Credit - Unemployment and Consumer Debts in Italy --; Chapter 39. Careful Lenders and Social Security - Trends in Unemployment, Consumer Credit and Debt in the Netherlands --; Chapter 40. Legal Protection for the Overindebted and Unemployed in Norway --; Chapter 41. Poverty and Debts - The Situation of Welfare Recipients and Debtors in Default in Sweden --; Chapter 42. 'Good' and 'Bad' Debts - Debtors' Protection and Pressure for Reform in Switzerland --; Chapter 43. Consumer Credit Protection for Low Risk Consumers in a Free Market Economy - The US-Consumer Credit Protection Law --; Bibliography --; Addresses of Associations and Institutions which Support Social Banking --; Authors --; Index --; Index: Names and Organisations --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110846034; 9783110635669
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110846034
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Janet Ford, Udo Reifner.