Money from nothing
Subtitle: indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa
By: Deborah James
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780804792677; 9780804791113
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Blacks; Social mobility; Social status; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Debt; Consumer credit
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the wellsprings of consumption and debt in South Africa; title: Indebtedness, consumption, and marriage : the new middle class; title: Regulating credit : tackling the redistributiveness of neoliberalism; title: "Ride the camel" : borrowing and lending in context; title: "You don't keep money all the time" : savings clubs and social mobility; title: South Africa's credit crunch : narratives and neighborhoods; title: "The history of that house keeps you out" : property and the new entrepreneur; title: New subjectivities : advice, aspiration, and prosperity.