Gunnar Trumbull is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1991 and his PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. He has served as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His research focuses on consumer politics in Europe and America. His previous books include Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets and Firm Strategy in France and Germany (2006) and Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests (2012).
1. Introduction
2. Commercial banks and consumer credit in the United States
3. Banks against credit: consumer finance in France
4. American retailers and credit innovation
5. Selling France on credit
6. Credit and reconstruction
7. The politics of usury
8. Credit for being American
9. Deregulation and the politics of over-indebtedness
10. Consumer credit and American liberalism.
