The US Debtfare State and the Credit Card Industry: Forging Spaces of Dispossession

Antipode

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 493-512

  Soederberg, Susanne ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cannibalistic capitalism; Credit cards; Debtfare; Fictitious capital; Neoliberalism; United States

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITALISM; DEBT; NEOLIBERALISM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873462962     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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