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

By Mehrsa Baradaran

Book Overview

The United States has two separate banking systems--one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. Deserted by banks and lacking credit, many people are forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services thanks to the effects of deregulation in the 1970s that continue today, Mehrsa Baradaran shows.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674286065
• ISBN13: 9780674286061
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"