https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Get-Yourself-Into-Debt https://booksandideas.net/Get-Yourself-Into-Debt 2011-10-04T15:55:24Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande Economy capitalism History United States of America subprimes crisis trust debt credit <p>The crisis currently affecting the United States is all the more serious when we consider how deep its roots go. The historian Louis Hyman shows how debt lodged itself at the heart of American capitalism during the 20<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century. More than just an economic system, it is a genuine social model that has collapsed along with subprime loans.</p>