Debt as power

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 bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Di Muzio, Tim, author (author), Robbins, Richard H. (Richard Howard), 1940-, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, England : Manchester University Press 2016
2016
Series:Theory for a global age.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426596606719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Towards a stark utopia
  • 2. Origins: war, national debt and the capitalized state
  • 3. Intensification: war, debt, and colonial power
  • 4. Consequences: the debt-growth-inequality nexus
  • 5. Solutions: a party of the 99% and the power of debt
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B.