bankruptcy

This page considers questions about personal/corporate bankruptcy in the information economy.

It covers -

• introduction -
• rating and referencing
• studies - major works

     introduction

[under development]

     rating and referencing

In the interim a discussion of personal referencing services is provided here.

Corporate rating services are discussed here.

     Studies

In contrast to the very extensive literature for practitioners there is surprisingly little historical or theoretical writing about bankruptcy in Australia, the UK, US and other jurisdictions.

For an overview of the US regime see Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law In America (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 2001) by David Skeel, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 2005) by Scott Sandage, As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 1989) by Theresa Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren & Jay Westbrook, Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy (Durham: Carolina Academic Press 2007) by Jason Kilborn and Financing the American Dream: A Cutural History of Consumer Credit (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 1991) by Lendol Calder.

Historical background is provided in Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-Up in Nineteenth Century England (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 1995) by V Markam Lester, Charles Warren's Bankruptcy in United States History (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1935)





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