This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic
economic institutions, money and credit are easy to overlook when they work well. When …

In the contest for least-studied part of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, the Bankruptcy
Clause Clause 4 certainly might win. Although we have lived with a permanent bankruptcy …

In the past decades, the growth of consumer credit has led to increased debt problems of
private households, and many economically advanced countries have responded to this …

Class actions are bad for business, so the story goes. As commercial actors long have
argued, class actions force extortionate settlements and over-deter legal profitmaking. But …

While scholars have rightly focused on the importance of the landmark opinions of the
United States Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, John Marshall, in the rise in influence of …

Because the early American state lacked the military, bureaucratic, and judicial capacities
found in stronger modern states for controlling territory, providing public services, and …

Abstract Of Dollars and Sense proposes a new context for reading dramatic depictions of
forgiveness in early American novels by examining the relationships among religious …