Book review: Loan sharks: the rise and rise of paydaylending

The time is certainly ripe for a better informed debate about fair access to finance in contemporary society, writes Paul Benneworth, in his review of Carl Packman’s Loan Sharks. This book is a persuasive call to the wider social research community to take financial exclusion more seriously, and place it firmly on the agenda of all progressively minded politicians, activists, and scholars.