Market, Freedom and the Illusions of Microcredit. Patronage, Caste, Class and Patriarchy in Rural South India
通过南印度案例，揭示小额信贷实际上受制于其本应消除的权力结构（如种姓、阶级和父权制），并质疑市场与个人自由之间的复杂关系。
As a market tool, microcredit is expected to promote individual freedom, for women in particular. By drawing on a southern Indian case, this paper argues that microcredit is in fact shaped by the power structures it is supposed to eradicate. Even if they are partly reshaped, local structures of power remain unavoidable to protect populations (something that microcredit fails to do) but also to build the microcredit market and ensure its legitimacy, for donors, local political arenas and local populations. Far beyond microcredit, our findings question the uneasy relationships between markets and individual freedoms.