Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
The Economy of Promises
Bruce G. Carruthers · 2024
77/100
👍 Worth It
Bruce Carruthers traces how credit evolved from personal trust to algorithmic judgment and shows exactly where systemic inequality got baked in along the way — it is timely, rigorous, and more readable than most Princeton University Press sociology. Informed general readers as well as economists and policy people will find real value here.
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Faith & family safety82
Substance / usefulness79
Craft & writing77
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit72
👁 Human-eye gut-check79
Penny’s verdict77
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