Debt and Austerity
Implications of the Financial Crisis
$390.81
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2020
Summary
This book explores the complex interactions between debt and austerity, analysing the social, economic, and legal implications of governments’ responses to the 2008 financial crisis.
Demonstrating how the nature of debt for those on low incomes has changed radically over the last decade, the chapters provide insight into how structural inequality was exacerbated by changes in the redistributive state, the legal system, and the welfare system. The examination occurs on a number of leve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839104343 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839104341 |
| Author: | Jodi Gardner, Mia Gray, Katharina Moser |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 646g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
Critics Review
‘The book is brilliant for illuminating the crush and bind of debt for low-income individuals in otherwise high-income British society since the advent of post-2008 austerity. Far from a unique and cloistered experience of the unlucky or undeserving, the book makes clear how gripping debt will remain without a range of urgently needed policy changes. These chapters will be indispensable reading for students, scholars, civil society, and, one desperately hopes, policy makers.’ – Heather Whiteside, Economic Geography
‘As problems of debt and overindebtedness loom large in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, this rich and interdisciplinary collection of essays provides timely insights into the theoretical, policy and practical issues in addressing problems of debt and low income in contemporary society.’ – Iain Ramsay, University of Kent, UK
‘As problems of debt and overindebtedness loom large in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, this rich and interdisciplinary collection of essays provides timely insights into the theoretical, policy and practical issues in addressing problems of debt and low income in contemporary society.’
Jodi Gardner
Edited by Jodi Gardner, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Mia Gray, Senior University Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge and Fellow at Girton College, and Katharina Moser, Lecturer, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK.
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