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Legislative Foundations of American Consumer Society: Regulation, Deregulation and Their Impacts from the 1930s to Today

Legislative Foundations of American Consumer Society: Regulation, Deregulation and Their Impacts from the 1930s to Today

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Business GeneralEconomics20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1476685886
ISBN13: 9781476685885
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 27 2021
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

The current literature on consumerism is diverse, scattered, and unsystematic. This book remedies this by identifying the beginning of mass consumer society in the United States, starting with the New Deal. The New Deal framework of guaranteeing new home purchases by means of low down-payment, fixed-rate home mortgages lasted until the 1970s, at which time the legal framework unraveled due to a sustained attack on New Deal racism. Despite this, American consumerism continued and even flourished without a regulatory structure. This book analyzes seven key pieces of federal legislation which undergird American consumer society to this day.

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