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City of debtors a century of fringe finance /

Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the United States have been asked to pay the greatest price for credit. Again and again, Americans have asked why the most fragile borrowers face the highest costs for access to the sm...

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Main Author: Fleming, Anne, 1979-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Physical Description: 367 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Credit control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Credit control -- Law and legislation -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Predatory lending -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Predatory lending -- Law and legislation -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Usury laws -- New York (State) -- New York.

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