Shortchanged :: life and debt in the fringe economy /

Drive through just about any low-income neighborhood and you're sure to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in "alternative financial services" direc...

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1. Verfasser: Karger, Howard Jacob, 1948-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: San Francisco, CA : Berkeley, CA : Berrett-Koehler ; Publishers Group West [distributor], ©2005.
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe:BK currents book.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung:Drive through just about any low-income neighborhood and you're sure to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in "alternative financial services" directed at the poor and those with credit problems. Howard Karger describes this world as an economic Wild West, where just about any financial scheme that's not patently illegal is tolerated. Taking a hard look at this fringe economy, Karger shows that what seem to be small, independent storefront operations are actually page
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 252 pages :)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and index.
ISBN:9781605098050
1605098051
9781609943882
1609943880
9781605098777
1605098779
1283268728
9781283268721
9786613268723
6613268720

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