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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Other Authors: Gísli Pálsson, 1949- (Editor), Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson
  • Introduction: The banality of financial evil / Gisli Palsson and E. Paul Durrenberger
  • Prologue: Some poetic thoughts concerning meltdowns / Einar Már Gumundsson
  • Vikings invade present-day Iceland / Kristín Loftsdóttir
  • Exploiting Icelandic history: 2000-2008 / Guni Th. Jóhannesson
  • Free market ideology, crony capitalism, and social resilience / Örn D. Jónsson and Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson
  • A day in the life of an Icelandic banker / Már Wolfgang Mixa
  • Something rotten in the state of Iceland: "The production of truth" about the Icelandic banks / Vilhjálmur Árnason
  • Overthrowing the government: a case study in protest / Jón Gunnar Bernburg
  • "Welcome to the revolution!" Voting in the Anarcho-surrealists / Hulda Proppe
  • Creativity and crisis / Tinna Gretarsdóttir, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, and Hannes Lárusson
  • Groundtruthing individual transferable quotas / Evelyn Pinkerton
  • Virtual fish stink, too / James Maguire
  • The resilience of rural Iceland / Margaret Willson and Birna Gunnlaugsdóttir
  • When fishing rights go up against human rights / Níels Einarsson
  • Schools in two communities weather the crash / Guný S. Gubjörnsdóttir and Sigurlína Davísdóttir
  • What happened to the migrant workers? / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir
  • Icelandic language schools after the crash / Pamela Joan Innes
  • Charity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland / James G. Rice
  • Epilogue: The neoliberal con / Dimitra Doukas
  • Retrospect / James Carrier.