Debt as Power

Richard H. Robbins, Tim Di Muzio (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2016
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-78499-326-9 (ISBN)

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"Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors."

Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The book is distinctive in offering a historically sensitive and comprehensive analysis of debt as an interconnected and global phenomenon.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .

Richard H. Robbins is Distinguished Teaching Professor in Anthropology at Plattsburg State University of New York, USA Tim Di Muzio is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong, Australia -- .

Introduction: Towards a stark utopia
1. Origins: war, national debt and the capitalist state
2. Intensification: war, debt and colonial power
3. Consequences: Exponential growth, magic money and austerity
4. What is to be done?
Bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.1.2016
Reihe/Serie	Theory for a Global Age
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	259 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-78499-326-3 / 1784993263
ISBN-13	978-1-78499-326-9 / 9781784993269
Zustand	Neuware