Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society(English, Electronic book text, Schraten Juergen)

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Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society(English, Electronic book text, Schraten Juergen) is written by Schraten Juergen and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1789206391 (ISBN 10) and 9781789206395 (ISBN 13).

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.