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Credit Scoring in the United States

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Credit scoring is the paradigmatic example of algorithmic governance (Fourcade and Healy 2017; Pasquale 2015). Corporations take information about thousands of individuals, data mine it for patterns that predict people not repaying their loans, and then make decisions about future lending-who gets money, how much interest they pay-based on variables that predicted default in the past.

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  • Kiviat, Barbara, 2019. "Credit Scoring in the United States," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 21(1), pages 33-42.
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    1. Eglė Jakučionytė & Swapnil Singh, 2023. "Emergence of subprime lending in minority neighborhoods," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 51(6), pages 1547-1583, November.

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