The Dark Side of Prosperity: Late Capitalism's Culture of Indebtedness

ISBN-13: 9780367599508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Mark Horsley

Opis

A rich and original qualitative study of the close relationship between financial capitalism, consumer aspirations, social exclusion and the proliferation of personal indebtedness, The Dark Side of Prosperity examines questions of social identity, subjectivity and consumer motivation in close connection with the socio-cultural ideals of an ’enjoyme

Recenzje

’In The Dark Side of Prosperity, Mark Horsley offers a detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of the debt industry and the lives of those who suffer under the burden of consumer debt. The book is written in a lively, imaginative and accessible style and yet still manages to remain theoretically rigorous. This is an outstanding contribution, and it is destined to become the standard text against which all other sociological accounts of the debt industry will be measured.’ Simon Winlow, Teesside University, UK ’This study of the cultural and subjective motivations of debtors, and the history and economics of the growth in consumer credit, offers a new slant to understanding consumer debt markets. We discover that the driving forces behind the recent upsurge of consumer indebtedness are the cyclical availability of credit and pervasive individualistic narratives about aspiration and the enjoyment society.’ Colin Webster, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Spis treści

The Dark Side of Prosperity

O autorze

Mark Horsley lectures in the Department of Law and Social Science at the University of Cumbria, UK.