A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business

by 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. In the process, a business system based largely on information circulating through personal networks became dependent on more formalized methods and institutions. First...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023404
• ISBN13: 9780674023406
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"