Suggested Reading

Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy Reviewed by Nicholas G. Glover Written by Prof. Pamela Foohey, Prof. Robert M. Lawless and Dr. Deborah K. Thorne Consumer bankruptcy affects Americans across the socioeconomic spectrum. It is a jarring truth that “[a]lmost every

To most people who are not insol-vency professionals, bankruptcy is a specialty, a discrete area of law. Insolvency experts, however, know that bankruptcy is one of the most generic of subjects, impacting virtually every legal discipline as well as many non-legal

Financing the American Dream, subtitled "A Cultural History of American Credit," takes a hard look at the effect that consumer credit facilities have on the social values in modern American culture. The author, an assistant professor of history at Augustana College in