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Consumer Credit, Debt and Bankruptcy: Comparative and International Perspectives

Ramsay, Iain and Niemi, Johanna and Whitford, William, eds. (2009) Consumer Credit, Debt and Bankruptcy: Comparative and International Perspectives. Hart Publishing, United Kingdom, 460 pp. ISBN 978-1-84113-258-7. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:28039)

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Abstract

After a long period of prosperity and steady economic growth, the world's leading economies are now in crisis, and although there will be debate about its origins, the scale and seriousness of the crisis is in no doubt. There is also no doubt that excessive amounts of consumer credit, allied to a weak understanding of how globalised credit markets might react to a crisis, have played a significant part. This book, which is primarily about credit, debt and the trouble they have led to, is written by authors who have specialised in researching into over-indebtedness, that is, situations in which an individual's debt burden has become overwhelming. For these authors the plight of individuals is a primary concern, but the wider issue is how credit is used and how it changes societies. The essays in this volume, addressing topics which are fundamental to our understanding of the current crisis, range widely across the whole sector of consumer finance, including mortgages, 'credit-binges', the regulation of consumer lending, insolvency, repayment plans, debt counselling and much more besides. The conclusions drawn from the book are equally wide-ranging, but above all the lesson learned from these essays is that the financialisation of contemporary life ensures that issues of the appropriate role of credit remain of critical importance in society.

Item Type: Edited book
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Jenny Harmer
Date Deposited: 03 Aug 2011 12:57 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:06 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28039 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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