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Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society : Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa /
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-regulat...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2020]
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| Colección: | The Human Economy ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781789206395 9783110997699 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |