Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society

Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa

von Jürgen Schraten

212 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Finanzen, Betriebswirtschaft und Management Wirtschaftswissenschaft Verhaltensökonomie
• ISBN: 9781789206388
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2020
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books