The Acrobat of Desire: Consumer Credit and its Linkages to Modern Consumerism

Michael Shaoul

Chapter 4 in Financial Institutions and Social Transformations, 1997, pp 68-91 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The title of this chapter is taken from a novel by Angela Carter.1In this book it is the name given to a troupe of mysterious acrobats that appear at a travelling circus. The acrobats perform an act during which they seemingly display the power to disassemble, multiply and juggle their limbs in a grotesquely erotic spectacle. As any reader of this book will discover, although undoubtedly beguiling, they are not without menace.

Keywords: Financial Institution; Social Transformation; Consumer Credit; Credit Growth; Disciplinary Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25953-3_4

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