Rethinking Money, Debt, and Finance After the Crisis

by Martijn Konings

The financial crisis of 2007-8 has been widely understood as a result of the financial system's exceeding its proper place in society; the system became unbalanced, unsustainable, and deprived of a solid foundation. Even as capitalist finance seeks to reinvent itself in the wake of massive upheaval, critics continue to portray the financial system as fundamentally irrational--an unstable, destructive inventor of fictitious money. Characterizing finance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822368307
• ISBN13: 9780822368304
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"