After a long period of prosperity and steady economic growth, the world's leading economies are now in crisis, although that there will be debate about its origins, the scale and seriousness of the crisis is not in doubt. There is also no doubt that excessive amounts of consumer credit, allied to a weak understanding of how globalized credit markets might react to a crisis, have played a significant part. This book, which is primarily about credit, debt, and the trouble they have led to, is written by authors who have specialized in researching into over-indebtedness - that is, situations in...