Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society
Subtitle: Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781789206388
Subjects: Consumer credit; Debts, public, africa
Description: "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"--