The consumer, credit and debt : governing the British economy

This thesis asks the question 'how did an imagined figure of the consumer, with raised levels of indebtedness, come to be identified as central to the government of the economy in contemporary Britain.' It utilises the method of Michel Foucault and governmentality scholarship generally to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Christopher
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2010
Subjects:
320
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.523722