Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society - Jürgen Schraten
| Автор: | Jürgen Schraten |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
| Серия: | The Human Economy |
| Жанр произведения: | Культурология |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9781789206395 |
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.