How Long to Read Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry

How Long Does it Take to Read Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry by Susanne Soederberg

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/ipeg-book-prize-2015-winner-announced/ Under the rubric of ‘financial inclusion’, lending to the poor –in both the global North and global South –has become a highly lucrative and rapidly expanding industry since the 1990s. A key inquiry of this book is what is ‘the financial’ in which the poor are asked to join. Instead of embracing the mainstream position that financial inclusion is a natural, inevitable and mutually beneficial arrangement, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry suggests that the structural violence inherent to neoliberalism and credit-led accumulation have created and normalized a reality in which the working poor can no longer afford to live without expensive credit. The book further transcends economic treatments of credit and debt by revealing how the poverty industry is extricably linked to the social power of money, the paradoxes in credit-led accumulation, and ‘debtfarism’. The latter refers to rhetorical and regulatory forms of governance that mediate and facilitate the expansion of the poverty industry and the reliance of the poor on credit to augment/replace their wages. Through a historically grounded analysis, the author examines various dimensions of the poverty industry ranging from the credit card, payday loan, and student loan industries in the United States to micro-lending and low-income housing finance industries in Mexico. Providing a much-needed theorization of the politics of debt, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry has wider implications of the increasing dependence of the poor on consumer credit across the globe, this book will be of very strong interest to students and scholars of Global Political Economy, Finance, Development Studies, Geography, Law, History, and Sociology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lU6PHjyOzU

How long is Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry?

Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry by Susanne Soederberg is 284 pages long, and a total of 72,136 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry aloud.

What Reading Level is Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry?

Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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