Debt or Democracy: Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice

by Mary Mellor

Book Overview

In the wake of the global financial crisis, most of the discussion has been focused on questions of debt. And the response, almost uniformly, has been austerity and privatization: cuts to services that have been painted as forms of reckless spending by a bloated public sector. In Debt or Democracy, Mary Mellor turns the whole conversation upside down, showing that the important question is not who owes what, but who controls the creation and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745335543
• ISBN13: 9780745335544
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.3"