Credit, debt and indebtedness are key terms for understanding contemporary social and
economic life. In many recent accounts of debt, however, debt is largely an ahistorical …

Lived relations to credit and debt can steadily sink into the everyday in ways that are often
missed in analyses that attend to the more immediately visible and eventful aspects of …

From conversations overheard on the bus or in the gym, to warnings voiced by
macroeconomists and major financial institutions (Keen, 2017; Brazier, 2017); everything is …

This chapter offers a novel reading of the political economy and cultural economy literature
on financialization and debt as it coalesces around understandings of “indebtedness.” It …

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding
debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass …

Existing research on how consumers experience increasing debt as normal focuses on the
shifting moral meanings surrounding debt. Examining rapid mortgage debt escalation in …

Neither the act of lending nor the state of indebtedness is new phenomena (Graeber, 2011;
Mauss, 1967). Debt is also not a novel feature of capitalism (Altvater, 1993; Marx, 1990 …

This paper proposes the concept of the 'socio-economy of debt'to explore the ambivalence
of debt, its multiple facets and its capacity to exploit, protect or emancipate. This socio …

Markets for consumer credit experienced an explosive growth in both developed and
developing countries during the last decades. In the last years, two main frameworks …

This article concerns the temporality of debt. Against the claim that the society of debt has
emptied out futures via the elevation of the promise to pay to a total social fact, it suggests …