Financial Justice

The People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

This provocative and accessible narrative recounts the inside story of how a broad-based people's campaign was mobilized and subsequently succeeded in pushing Congress to create a consumer financial regulator with clout.What would Congress do—if anything—to tame Wall Street and the nation's lenders following the financial meltdown of 2008? This book tells the true story of how an alliance of consumer, civil rights, labor, fair lending, and other progressive groups emerged to effectively challenge Wall Street and its official protectors and to win substantial new legislative reforms—actions that resulted in the Dodd-Frank Act and its path-breaking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Based largely on in-depth interviews with the leading activists involved in the campaign, Financial Justice: The People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse taps into the world of contemporary citizen movements to present evidence into the conditions that determine the success and failure of social movement campaigns. It goes well beyond general, global variables, such as "effective management," to show how the formal and informal rules adopted by a campaign can serve to preclude fragmentation and incoherence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-05-09
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:Frank,Barney
ISBN:9781440829512

Utforska kategorier

Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Larry Kirsch is an economist and managing partner of IMR Health Economics.Robert N. Mayer, PhD, is professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah.

Recensioner i media

Financial Justice portrays a lively, in-depth narrative of the people waging the battle for consumer finance protection and their victories, setbacks, and compromises. It brings to life the legislative history of the Act that created the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) by illustrating the work of activists, policy advocates, and policymakers involved in the creation of the CFPB. . . . With all its attention to detail, this book is a valuable asset to anyone researching the history of the Dodd-Frank Act and the CFPB.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Congressman Barney FrankAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. How Did We Ever Get into This Mess?2. Elizabeth Warren Has a Notion3. The Magic Moment for Reform4. Activists Need Leaders, Too5. Coalescing the Coalition6. The Battle in the House7. Wanted: A Few Votes in the Senate8. Auto Dealers Drive for an Exemption9. Preemption: The Role of State Reformers10. What Did the Advocates Accomplish and How?Afterword: Backward and Forward with Elizabeth WarrenNorman I. SilberNotesSelected BibliographyIndex