Debt As Power

Informationen zum Autor Richard H. Robbins is Distinguished Teaching Professor in Anthropology at Plattsburgh 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "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." Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Towards a stark utopia1. Origins: war, national debt and the capitalist state2. Intensification: war, debt and colonial power3. Consequences: Exponential growth, magic money and austerity4. What is to be done?BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Tim Di Muzio, Tim Di Muzio, Muzio Tim Di, Richard H. Robbins, Richard H. Di Muzio Robbins, Richard H. Muzio Robbins
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2016
• EAN: 9781784993269
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-326-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Theory for a Global Age; Theory for a Global Age
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Political Economy, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures