Debt as power

Author(s)

• Di Muzio, Tim
• Robbins, Richard H.

Bibliographic Information

Debt as power

Tim Di Muzio and Richard H. Robbins

（Theory for a global age / series editor, Gurminder K. Bhambra）

Manchester University Press, 2016

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-185) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. -- .

Table of Contents

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 -- .

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Details

• NCID: BB2607261X
• ISBN:
  • 9781784993252
• LCCN: 2015303356
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Manchester
• Pages/Volumes: x, 205 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HG3701
  • DC23 : 336.34
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Debt
  • LCSH : Credit
  • LCSH : Capitalism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB16867460