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

by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607323346
• ISBN13: 9781607323341
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"