WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www. bisa-ipeg. org/ipeg-book-prize-2015-
winner-announced/Under the rubric of 'financial inclusion', lending to the poor–in both the …

entails a rollback of the welfare state, breaking the power of organized labor, precarization of
labor markets, financialization of the economy, and ex ponential expansion of debt. In this …

This article challenges the tendency to conceptualize contemporary debt bondage as an
individualized relationship between employer and victim. It highlights the systemic relations …

The article examines the development of the new “debt economy,” especially the expansion
of individual debt, in its relation to the main props of the neoliberal agenda: the precarization …

According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty.
By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new …

This article examines how financialized capitalism has radically subverted the role and logic
of social policy, provoking a sea change in the realm of social welfare, particularly in the …

The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums
involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of …

Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study
the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on …

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding
debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass …

Credit card debt is a ubiquitous feature of neoliberal capitalism. To explain the notable
growth of credit card usage in the US, I adopt a historical materialist approach that employs …