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How Credit Reporting Agencies Got Their Power

In an economy based on doing business with strangers, monitoring people's trustworthiness quickly became very profitable.

by Josh Lauer, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on September 19, 2017

Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America

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Bearing Risks and Being Watched

The individualization of risk that we often think of as part of neoliberalism already existed strongly in the early 20th century.

by Greta R. Krippner via Public Books on February 26, 2019

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Credit Bureaus Were the NSA of the 19th Century

They were enormous, tech-savvy, and invasive in their methods—and they enlisted Abraham Lincoln into their ranks.

by Sarah Jeong via The Atlantic on April 21, 2016

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