Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1607323346 ISBN 13 : 9781607323341

Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2014

Synopsis

Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland s 2008 financial collapse was the first case in a series of meltdowns, a warning of danger in the global order. This full-scale anthropology of financialization and the economic crisis broadly discusses this momentous bubble and burst, and places it in theoretical, anthropological, and global historical context through descriptions of the complex developments leading to it and the larger social and cultural implications and consequences. Chapters from anthropologists, sociologists, historians, economists, and key local participants focus on the neoliberal policies mainly the privatization of banks and fishery resources that concentrated wealth among a select few, skewed the distribution of capital in a way that Iceland had never experienced before, and plunged the country into a full-scale economic crisis. Gambling Debt significantly raises the level of understanding and debate on the issues relevant to financial crises, painting a portrait of the meltdown from many points of view from bankers to schoolchildren, from fishers in coastal villages to the urban poor and immigrants, and from artists to philosophers and other intellectuals. This book is for anyone interested in financial troubles and neoliberal politics as well as students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, economics, philosophy, political science, business, and ethics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

E. Paul Durrenberger is emeritus professor of anthropology from the University of Iowa and Penn State University. Gisli Palsson is professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland and visiting professor at King s College, London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Colorado
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1607323346
• ISBN 13: 9781607323341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Durrenberger E. Paul, Palsson Gisli
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