From the series:
Social Wealth Seminar
Research Brief

Social Wealth Seminar: Sarah Quinn

JFI Research
“How Credit Programs Became a Multi-Purpose Political Tool.”


Tuesday, December 8, 2020: Sarah Quinn (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington), “How Credit Programs Became a Multi-Purpose Political Tool.”

Readings:  

  • Sarah Quinn, “When All Social Problems Became Financial Problems,” LPE Project Blog, 20 November 2019, available here.
  • Sarah Quinn, American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation (Princeton:  Princeton UP, 2019):
    • Introduction: “The Problem and Promise of Credit in American Life,” available here.
    • Ch 4: “Credit as a Tool of Statecraft,” available here.

View the session on Youtube here.