Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction \ Peter Y. Paik 1 1 Debt \ Richard D. Wolff 14 2 “I Consider It Un-American Not to Have a Mortgage”: Immigrant Home Ownership in Chicago \ Elaine Lewinnek 26 3 Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance \ Mary Poovey 39 4 On Debt \ Michael Allen Gillespie 56 5 The Growth Imperative: Prosperity or Poverty \ Joel Magnuson 72 6 Democracy’s Debt: Capitalism and Cultural Revolution \ Stephen L. Gardner 94 7 Is Debt the New Karma? Why America Finally Fell Apart \ Morris Berman 116 8 Measures of Time: Exploring Debt, Imagination, and Real Nature \ Julianne Lutz Warren 124 9 The Time of Living Dead Species: Extinction Debt and Futurity in Madagascar \ Genese Marie Sodikoff 140 10 Unintended Consequences and the Epistemology of Fraud in Dickens and Hayek \ Eleanor Courtemanche 164 11 The Resurrection of an Economic God: Keynes Becomes Postmodern \ Michael Tratner 177 12 China and the United States: The Bonds of Debt \ Donald D. Hester 185 13 Debt’s Moral \ Kennan Ferguson 202 14 Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice and Ecological Scale \ Gerry Canavan 210 Index 225 Contributors 233 ...