The Financialization of Everyday life or the Domestication of Finance?: How mortgages engage with borrowers' temporal horizons, relationships and rationality in Hungary

Cultural Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 733-759

  Pellandini Simányi, Léna ^a   Hammer, Ferenc ^a   Vargha, Zsuzsanna ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

borrowers; financialization; Hungary; mortgage; performativity; rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930822779     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2015.1017142     Document Type: Article

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