Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society: Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa
Jürgen SchratenSouth Africa was one of the first countries in the Global South that established a financialized consumer credit market. This market consolidates rather than alleviates the extreme social inequality within a country. This book investigates the political reasons for adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order. The book addresses sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and legal scholars interested in the interaction of economy and law in contemporary market societies.
Yıl:
2020
Yayımcı:
Berghahn Books
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
212
ISBN 10:
1789206391
ISBN 13:
9781789206395
Seriler:
The Human Economy; 7
Dosya:
PDF, 1.54 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020