Stained in Red
Rachel O’Dwyer: Credit Data, 4 April 2019
Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
by Josh Lauer.
Columbia, 352 pp., £27, September 2018,978 0 231 16808 3 Show More
by Josh Lauer.
Columbia, 352 pp., £27, September 2018,
“... therefore, on an assessment of whether or not to trust that promise. It’s a risky business. Josh Lauer traces the history of credit scoring – a means of quantifying this risk – back to the 1840s. Of course, merchants had always had ways of deciding which among their customers should be given credit, and ledgers are full of accounts of local ... ”
