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 …

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 …

This essay attends to the specifics of the debt economy within contemporary finance capital:
its production of profit, credit, money, taxes, and derivatives; its control of institutions and its …

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 …

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 …

I owe you a dinner invitation, you owe ten years on your mortgage, and the government
owes billions. We speak confidently about these cases of debt, but is that concept clear in its …

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 …

We tend to interpret the present crisis through the cyclical theories of an older generation.
While mainstream economists root around for the “green shoots” of recovery, critical critics …

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 …

Two years ago, by a series of strange coincidences, I found myself attending a garden party
at Westminster Abbey. I was a bit uncomfortable. It's not that other guests weren't pleasant …