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Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society: Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789206388)
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J?gen Schraten
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xSouth 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.
Author: J?gen Schraten
ISBN-10: 1789206383
ISBN-13: 9781789206388
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2020
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By J?gen Schraten
xJ?gen Schraten is a sociologist at the University of Giessen. Currently he acts as principal investigator of a research project comparing the role of contracts and property in the financialized economies of South Africa, the United States and Germany. His recent publications include 'Habits of Austerity, Financialization and New Ways of Dealing with Money', in Keith Hart (ed.), Economy For and Against Democracy, (Berghahn, 2015).
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