TY - BOOK AU - Brubaker,Ralph AU - Lawless,Robert M. AU - Tabb,Charles Jordan TI - A debtor world: interdisciplinary perspectives on debt SN - 9780199980000 (ebook) : AV - KD2139 .D43 2013 U1 - 332.7 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Debtor and creditor KW - England KW - Bankruptcy N1 - Includes index N2 - The goal of this collection is to explore debt neither as a problem nor a solution but as a phenomenon and to promote the exchange of knowledge to better comprehend why consumers and businesses decide to borrow money. It asks what happens to businesses and consumers under a heavy debt load, and what legal norms and institutions societies need to encourage the efficient use of debt while promoting a greater understanding of the global phenomenon of increased indebtedness and societal dependence UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199873722.001.0001 ER -