De Gruyter Banking for People: Social Banking and New Poverty, Consumer Debts and Unemployment in Europe - National Reports

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents in Brief -- Contents -- General Introduction / Ford, Janet / Reifner, Udo -- European Declaration for Social Consumer Rights -- Volume I: Social Banking and New Poverty -- Part I: Economic Development and Private Indebtedness -- Chapter 1. Social Banking and New Poverty - Towards a New Approach in Law and Economics / Reifner, Udo -- Chapter 2. Towards a Progressive Market / Ekins, Paul -- Chapter 3. Economics and social problems / Rothschild, Kurt W. -- Chapter 4. Consumer Credit and Human Capital in Germany / Reis, Claus -- Chapter 5. Credit, Debt and Financial Control in Great Britain / Conaty, Pat -- Chapter 6. Financial Services - Who Will Gain from the Single Market / Vogler, Heinz -- Part II: New Technologies and Consumer Debts -- Chapter 7. Credit Cards, New Technology and Consumer Debt / Mitchell, Jeremy -- Chapter 8. Indebtedness by Credit Cards in the Federal Republic of Germany / Godschalk, Hugo T. C. -- Chapter 9. Credit Card Mania in America / Caplovitz, David -- Part III: Trade Unions, Consumer Unions and the Poor -- Chapter 10. Whose Agenda Whose Resources Whose Initiative / Gibson, Tony -- Chapter 11. Trade-Unions, Unemployment and the Unemployed in Germany / Mattfeldt, Harald -- Chapter 12. Consumer Organizations and the Struggle Against Poverty - The Example of Konsumenten Kontakt in the Netherlands / Nagel, K.P. -- Chapter 13. Credit for Poor People - Abolishing or Solving the Problem / Simpson, Robin -- Part IV: Ethical Banking - New Forms of a Social Market Economy -- Chapter 14. Ethical Banking / Ekins, Paul -- Chapter 15. Alternative Banking and Ethical Investment / Dauncey, Guy -- Chapter 16. Bright Ideas and Empty Pockets: Overview of Development Banking in the UK / Dabson, Brian -- Chapter 17. Shorebank Corporation: A Private Sector Banking Initiative to Renew Distressed Communities / Shapiro, Joan -- Chapter 18