Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society
Jürgen Schraten · 2020
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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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 199
- ISBN
- 9781789206388
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