Аннотация:Deborah James' latest book 'Money from nothing' is a captivating and highly nuanced account of the on-going South African credit-and-debt boom.It shows how current-day South Africans expand their networks of credit and debt in order to square their desires for upward mobility with competing claims on their resources from family, in-laws, neighbours, corporations, NGOs and the state.The author draws on a broad range of sources that include interviews and participant observation as much as novels, radio shows, self-devised surveys and analyses by economists.The result is a rich description of the lived realities of the country's lenders and borrowers, whose credit and debt connections seamlessly span from the 'formal' to the 'informal' sector.James begins by explaining the proliferation of credit and debt among members of
