Consumer credit, debt and bankruptcy comparative and international perspectives / edited by Johanna Niemi, Iain Ramsay and William C. Whitford.
| Other author | Niemi, Johanna, 1957- |
| Other author | Ramsay, Iain. |
| Other author | Whitford, William C., 1940- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., |
| Description | viii, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Inequality and access to financial services / Gregory D Squires -- The political economy of consumer credit securitization : comparing predatory lending in home finance in the US, UK, Germany and Japan / Christopher L Peterson -- Consumer overindebtedness in Brazil and the need for new consumer bankruptcy legislation / Cláudia Lima-Marques and Antônio Benjamin -- 'Wannabe WAGS' and 'credit binges' : the constructions of overindebtedness in the UK / Iain Ramsay -- Overindebted households and law : prevention and rehabilitation in Europe / Johanna Niemi -- 'A call to arms' : for regulation of consumer lending / Udo Reifner -- The political economy of the EC consumer credit directive / Sefa M Franklin -- Disclosure as an imperfect means for addressing overindebtedness : an empirical assessment of comparative approaches / Susan Block-Lied ... [et al.]. -- Prevention of overindebtedness and mechanisms for resolving overindebtedness of South African consumers / Michelle Kelly-Louw -- The myth of the cautious consumer : law, culture, economics and politics in the rise and partial fall of unsecured lending in Japan / Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage -- Making sense of nation-level bankruptcy filing rates / Ronald J Mann -- Overindebtedness and financial stress : a comparative study in Europe / Catarina Frade and Claudia Abreu Lopes -- Bankruptcy in Germany : filing rates and the people behind the numbers / Wolfram Backert ... [et al.] -- Elderly consumer weakness in 'withholding credit' / Johannes Doll -- Two decades, three key questions, and evolving answers in European consumer insolvency law : responsibility, discretion, and sacrifice / Jason Kilborn -- A law-in-action approach to comparative study of repayment forms of consumer bankruptcy / Jean Braucher -- Debt agreements from down under / John Duns and Rosalind Mason -- Personal bankruptcy in Korea / Soogeun Oh --New labour : more debt : the political response / Michael Green -- Debt counseling in the shadow of the court : the Dutch experience / Nadja Jungmann and Nick Huls. |
| General note | Selected papers from the meeting of the Law and Society Association held in Berlin during July 2007. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010286829 |
| ISBN | 9781841132587 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1841132586 (cloth) |
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