| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2010286829 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781841132587 (cloth) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1841132586 (cloth) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
352.45 CO NS |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Consumer credit, debt and bankruptcy : |
| Subtitle |
comparative and international perspectives / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Johanna Niemi, Iain Ramsay and William C. Whitford. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Oxford ; |
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Portland, Or. : |
| Publisher |
Hart Pub., |
| Date |
2009. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 453 p. : |
| Other Details |
ill ; |
| Size |
24 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Selected papers from the meeting of the Law and Society Association held in Berlin during July 2007. |
| CONTENTS |
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| 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. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Heading |
Consumer credit |
| General |
Law and legislation |
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Congresses. |
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| Topical Heading |
Debtor and creditor |
| Geographic |
Congresses. |
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| Topical Heading |
Bankruptcy |
| Geographic |
Congresses. |
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| Name |
Niemi-Kiesiläinen, Johanna. |
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| Name |
Ramsay, Iain. |
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| Name |
Whitford, William C., |
| Dates |
1940- |
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