History A-Level
Hire purchase
What Hire purchase means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Hire purchase
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A way of leveraging consumption that artificially stimulated consumer demand while creating unsustainable private debt, masking demand fragility.
Topics that use Hire purchase
- Boom and crash, 1920–29 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- American literature
- Jazz Age
- Laissez-faire
- Limits to the boom
- Modernity versus traditionalism
- Nativism and political extremism
- The changing role of women
- The failure of moral legislation
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