Debt as Power

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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Richard H. Robbins is Distinguished Teaching Professor in Anthropology at Plattsburg State University of New York, USA
Tim Di Muzio is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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