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Debt as Power
Richard H. Robbins
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Description for Debt as Power
Hardback. Series Editor(s): Bhambra, Gurminder K. Series: Theory for a Global Age. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Series
Theory for a Global Age
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784993252
SKU
V9781784993252
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About Richard H. Robbins
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 -- .
Reviews for Debt as Power
'This is economic anthropology at its best - relevant, sophisticated, and readable. The authors brilliantly show how debt has been the essential glue that holds the world economic system together, an instrument that spreads untold misery and modern forms of slavery, to the continuing benefit of creditors. A powerful anthropological answer to Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Debt as ... Read more