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

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...

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Main Author: Durrenberger, E. Paul
Other Authors: Palsson, Gisli
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, CO University Press of Colorado 2014
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