Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism: Switzerland, 1800-1900 Contributor(s): Suter, Mischa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472132520 ISBN-13: 9780472132522 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - European - Business & Economics | Infrastructure - Business & Economics | Finance - General |
Dewey: 332.750 |
LCCN: 2021936470 |
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.3" W x 9.06" (1.28 lbs) 336 pages |
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Publisher Description: Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. It focuses on Switzerland, an exemplary case of liberal rule. Debt collection and bankruptcy relied on received practices until they were standardized in a Swiss federal law in 1889. The vast array of these practices was summarized by the idiomatic Swiss legal term "Rechtstrieb" (literally, "law drive"). Analyzing these forms of summary justice opens a window to the makeshift economies and the contested political imaginaries of nineteenth-century everyday life. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy; it is an argument for studying capitalism from the bottom up. |