In many respects, these two positions can be seen to frame the contemporary politics of
debt, which centre upon the struggle between two different visions of 'economy'defined on …

Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become a serious problem that
threatens to destroy the global socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of …

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in this book. The book
brings out the varied and often paradoxical aspects of debt, showing that it is both shared …

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 …

Since the financial crisis of 2007-08 there has been a growing interest within sociology as
well as within allied social science disciplines in debt and indebtedness. This has resulted in …

Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical
logic, ignoring its other facets. Whose debt, and debt of what exactly? This volume analyzes …

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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 …

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 …

In 2011, the economist and anthropologist David Graeber published a thick volume entitled
Debt: The First 5,000 years. It went back over the 2008 financial crisis that just about …