“Morality and popular finance: moral capital as a kind of guarantee.”

ARIEL WILKIS

Buenos Aires

Congreso; Second International Sociological Forum; 2012

ISA

In the present essay I discuss the expansion of financial agencies specializing in providing personal credits for consumption. I´m interested in this process because it has meant one of the mechanisms of incorporation of the popular classes into the financial system. A recent survey on financial practices in Greater Buenos Aires showed that about 20% of the informal workers -with welfare beneficiaries and people living in slums-, obtained a credit through these agencies in the past year.