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More to Explore -- Worldview Themes #45A & 45B: Borrowing
Mentality / Pay As You Go |
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Criticism
of Debt
(from online encyclopedia, about debt in the most general
sense) |
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Debt (from online
encyclopedia, mainly about financial debt) |
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Consumer
Debt (from online encyclopedia) |
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Credit
Card Debt (from online encyclopedia) |
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Credit
Card (from online encyclopedia) |
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Government
Debt (from online encyclopedia) |
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Microcredit
(from online encyclopedia) |
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Grameen
Bank (from online encyclopedia) |
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Grameen Bank (homepage
of those who pioneered microcredit) |
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Deficits,
the National Debt, and Economic Growth ("in
a growing economy, the National Debt is nothing to fear") |
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The Overspent
American, by Juliet Shor (book by economics professor at Boston
College) |
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The Secret
History of the Credit Card (PBS frontline documentary, watch online) |
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Maxed Out (2006
documentary) |
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In Debt We Trust (2006
documentary) |
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Your
Credit Scores (from
U.S. government sponsored Consumer Federation of America and Fair Isaac
Corp.) |
| Consumer
Guide to Credit |
| The
Lending Club (peer to peer lending) |
| Prosper
(peer to peer lending) |
| Money
Matters for Students: Establishing Credit |
| Compulsive
Spending / Debt Counseling |
| The
Advertising of Installment Plans, by Sharon Murphy (historical perspective) |
| Financial
Psychology and Lifechanging Events |
| Public
Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement, by James Buchanan |
| "The
New Austerity," by Justin Fox (article about a great new idea in Time
March 24 2008) |
| "Hey
Buddy, Can You Spare $10,000?" by Jennie L. St. John (re: peer to
peer loans Time March 17 2008) |
| "Visa
Charges On," by Justin Fox (article in Time March 17 2008) |
| "Exposing
the Credit Card Fine Print," by Anita Hamilton (article in Time
March 3 2008) |
| Consumer
Debt and Bankruptcy, by Fred Foldvary ("The Progress Report"
editorial) |
| The
Ethics of Bankruptcy, by Jukka Kilpi (read excerpts of this 1998 book
at Google Books) |
| America's
Total Debt Report, by Michael Hodges (website full of debt-related
financial reports) |
| "Going
Bankrupt: Why the Debt Crisis is Now the Greatest Threat to the American
Republic", by Chalmers Johnson |
| Ethics
and International Debt: A View From Feminist Economics, by Julie Nelson |
| Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads
ed. Chris Jochnick from Oxford University Press (third world debt
crisis) |
| Ecological
Debt (from New Economics Foundation) |
| Christian
Perspective on Being in Debt |
| Usury
(from online encyclopedia, includes Biblical
injunctions against usury) |
| Consumer
Debt Help (credit card debt consolidation service) |
| Loan
Calculator (free online program to figure size of monthly payments,
etc) |
| Guilt
(from online encyclopedia) |
| Good
Debt, Bad Debt, by Jon Hanson (book from "The Financial Sanity
Pundit") |
| "The
New Austerity," by Justin Fox (article about a great new idea in Time
March 24 2008) |
| "Hey
Buddy, Can You Spare $10,000?" by Jennie L. St. John (re: peer to
peer loans Time March 17 2008) |
| Debt
Smothers Young Americans (a USA Today report) |
| Risk
and the Democratization of Credit Cards, by Susan Black and Donald Morgan |
| Kick
the Credit Card Habit, by Chris Farrell |
| Consumerism
and Fiscal Disorder (from Reconstructing American History, by
Alfred de Grazia, Yale Univ.) |
| "Who
Needs the Mortgage Interest Deduction?" by Roger Lowenstein
(March 5, 2006 NY Times story) |
| Frugality
(from online encyclopedia) |
| Your
Money or Your Life, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin (homepage for
this book) |
| Student
Debt Alert (organization concerned with college student debt) |
| How
Long Can Households Sustain Negative Savings?, by John Waggoner (March
2006 USA Today article) |
| quotes
related to borrowing |
| quotes
related to frugality |