Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America’s Addiction to Credit (Paperback)
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No interest for one year! No annual fee! No minimum payments for six months! And, if you want to believe Robert Manning, there’s no way out of the debt that we find ourselves in, as individuals and as a country. Credit (more…)
2.0 out of 5 stars
Much too Verbose
I think I’m getting sick of reading books from Humanities folks, they are also far too verbose. This book is not an exception.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Robert D. Manning is one of the most influential “public” scholars in the US
Robert D. Manning is a rare combination of influential scholar and public policy “statesmen” whose work has not only inspired hundreds of scholars projects and thousands of media…
5.0 out of 5 stars
One nation, under debt, with liberty and justice for some
We’re in the middle of an ongoing social and economic crisis according to Robert D. Manning, author of “Credit Card Nation”.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Valuable information but the writing style is odd
I have no arguments with Prof. Manning’s points, although I suppose I too was less than moved by the stories of college students who had to declare bankruptcy to pay for their bar…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Scary stuff
A great overview of the precarious state of credit we’ve reached and how we got here. Good lessons for all: policy-makers, borrowers, lenders, college students.
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Morality Play?
Overall I felt that this book could have been, and should have been, much better. The ever-increasing level of credit-card debt is a real problem, as are the abuses of sub-prime…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Revealing. This should be a wake up call to Congress
Dr. Manning is pointing out a societal problem that is growing like a cancer. Most of us are products of what we have learned from the media advertising about credit cards, and…
2.0 out of 5 stars
not worth reading
The basic thesis of this book, in case you need to be told, is that evil credit card companies are fleecing America and getting away with it, and that those “revolvers” who carry…
4.0 out of 5 stars
Comprehensive Study of Consumer Debt
A striking and keen assessment of the credit card industry and damning expose’of corporate tactics to lure the unsuspecting and inexperienced into a life of consumerism.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Just a question of free will? NOT!
Several reviewers here of Manning’s *Credit Card Nation* take him to task for proposing sweeping regulatory reforms to get Americans out from under the stupendous national credit…