| Author/Contributor(s): | Schraten, Jürgen |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Date: | 02/03/2020 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.