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Borrowing to Live - Consumer Mortgage Credit Revisited

Anglais · Livre de poche

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Informationen zum Autor Nicolas P. Retsinas is director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies and a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Design, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Harvard Business School. Eric S. Belsky is executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies and a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Design. Together they have edited three previous Brookings/JCHS books: Low-Income Homeownership (2002), Building Assets, Building Credit (2005), and Revisiting Rental Housing (2008). Klappentext "A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publicationAmericans are awash in debt, and the U.S. economy is in trouble. Credit undergirds daily life more than ever?it has become one of the defining aspects of American life, and the ramifications are becoming clearer by the day. The already considerable damage from a depressed housing market has been exacerbated by the subprime lender implosion, sending shock waves through the financial sector, international economies, and government at all levels. Most low- or moderate-income people borrow, but that should not be construed as uniformly poor judgment or lack of disciplines?Americans are not borrowing merely to keep up with the Joneses, but too often simply to stay afloat.In Borrowing to Live, the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University brings together a group of experts drawn from the best of academia, research, and public services. Together with editors Nicolas Retsinas and Eric Belsky, they dissect the worrisome current state of consumer and mortgage credit in the United States and help point the way out of the current struggles.Contributors: Michael S. Barr, Eric S. Belsky, Raphael W. Bostic, Shawn Cole, Amy Crews Cutts, Kathleen C. Engel, Ren S. Essene, Elaine Kempson, Patricia A. McCoy, William A. Merrill, Sendhil Mullainathan, Anthony Pennington-Cross, Elizabeth Renuart, Eldar Shafir, Edna R. Sawady, Jennifer Tescher, John Thompson, Peter Tufano, Susan M. Wachter" Zusammenfassung Americans are awash in debt, and the U.S. economy is in trouble. Credit undergirds daily life more than ever —it has become one of the defining aspects of American life, and the ramifications are becoming clearer by the day....

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Auteurs Nicolas P. (EDT)/ Belsky Retsinas
Collaboration Eric S. Belsky (Editeur), Belsky Eric S. (Editeur), Nicolas P. Retsinas (Editeur)
Edition Brookings Institution Press
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre de poche
Sortie 01.11.2008
 
EAN 9780815774136
ISBN 978-0-8157-7413-6
Pages 300
Catégories Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies

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