The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation - Softcover

Toussaint, Eric

 
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Synopsis

For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations between them. Treated as sacrosanct, immutable, and eternally binding, it has become the yoke of choice for imperial powers in the post-colonial world to enforce their subservience over the global south. In this ground-breaking history, renowned economist Éric Toussaint argues for a radical reversal of this balance of accounts through the repudiation of sovereign debt.

Éric Toussaint, Senior Lecturer at the University of Liège, is President of Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts, Belgium. He is the co-author of Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank, Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.

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Éric Toussaint, Senior Lecturer at the University of Liège, is president of Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts, Belgium. He is the author of “Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank, Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.”.

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ISBN 10:  1642591181 ISBN 13:  9781642591187
Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2019
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