The Mexican Debtfare State: Dispossession, Micro-Lending, and the Surplus Population

Globalizations

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 561-575

  Soederberg, Susanne ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

accumulation by dispossession; debtfare state; Mexico; micro lending; neoliberalism; surplus population

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861476827     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2012.699932     Document Type: Article

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