Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society
| Author | : Jürgen Schraten |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2020-02-03 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781789206388 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1789206383 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (383 Downloads) |
Download or read book Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society written by Jürgen Schraten and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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