Consumer Credit Society and Consumer Bankruptcy: Reflections on Credit Cards and Bankruptcy in the Informational Economy

Consumer Bankruptcy in Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 17-39

  Ramsay, Iain ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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