Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society

"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"--

שנה

2020

שפה

English

הוצאה

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

מהדורות

3

עמודים

199

ISBN

9781789206388

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata