Debt as power /
Tim Di Muzio and Richard H. Robbins.
- x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Theory for a global age .
- Theory for a global age. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-185) and index.
Toward a stark utopia -- Origins: war, national debt, and the capita lized state -- Intensification: war, debt, and colonial power -- Conseq uences: the debt-growth-inequality nexus -- Solutions: a party of the 9 9% and the power of debt.
"Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our unders tanding 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 a nd investors."