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

In: Financial Institutions and Social Transformations

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  • Michael Shaoul

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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.

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  • Michael Shaoul, 1997. "The Acrobat of Desire: Consumer Credit and its Linkages to Modern Consumerism," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Knights & Tony Tinker (ed.), Financial Institutions and Social Transformations, chapter 4, pages 68-91, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25953-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25953-3_4
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