| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
RIPE series in global political economy |
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RIPE series in global political economy
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| Contents |
Finance at its centre and its edges -- Mapping the logics of expansion: the globalization of payday lending -- The financialization of micro-credit -- Bodies at/of risk: micro-insurance and the vulnerable life course -- Making regular: fringe-lending as a formal practice -- From 'inclusion' to adverse incorporations -- Economies of social practice: creating alternative circuits of financial incorporation |
| Summary |
The most recent conversations about financial instability in International Political Economy have addressed the ongoing financial spasms of the past five years; a global financial spasm unleashed by the 2008 subprime debacle, ongoing Eurozone instability, and general price volatility in securities markets globally. Alongside and as part of these broader spasms, however, has been another key trend-the intensifying reach of global financial markets into and among those populations which live at its very edges. There are increasing, and increasingly profitable, experiments which are explicitly ta |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Finance -- Social aspects
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International finance -- Social aspects
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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International finance -- Social aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317748373 |
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1317748379 |
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9781315795713 |
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131579571X |
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