Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society. Jürgen Schraten
Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society
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Автор произведения: Jürgen Schraten
Серия: The Human Economy
Жанр: Культурология
Издательство: Ingram
isbn: 9781789206395
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South 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.