Debt and austerity : implications of the financial crisis / edited by Jodi Gardner, Mia Gray and Katharina Möser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardner, Jodi, 1986- editor.

Gray, Mia, editor.

Möser, Katharina, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Debts, Public--Government policy.

Debts, Public.

Consumer credit--Government policy.

Consumer credit.

Credit control--Government policy.

Credit control.

Finance, Public--Government policy.

Finance, Public.

Economic policy.

Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I: Nature of the problem

Understanding low-income debt in a high-income country / Mia Gray, Katharina Möser and Jodi Gardner

Mortgage debt in an age of austerity / Susan J. Smith

Debt begets debt : public and private debt in austerity Britain / Mia Gray

Austerity and financial safety nets : bankruptcy abuse prevention and bank protection in Irish post-crisis policy? / Joseph Spooner

The changing infrastructure of debt relief : privatisation, bureaucracy and public choice / Katharina Möser

I just felt responsible for my debts : debt stigma and class(ificatory) exploitation / Matthew Sparkes

Austere social reproduction and the gendered geographies of debt / Sam Strong

Part II: Nature of the solution

The poverty premium and debt / Sara Davies and Andrea Finney

High-cost credit in the UK : what's the problem and how should policy respond? / Karen Rowlingson

The rise and rise of affordability complaints / Sara Williams

Consumer debt problems and the image of the consumer in Swedish consumer credit regulation / Ann-Sofie Henrikson

Partnering to address financial exclusion in Australia / Jordan Grace

Relief from austerity : the case for a targeted write-off of the UKs household debt stock / Johnna Montgomerie

Austerity, inequality and high-cost credit : understanding the role of a social minimum / Jodi Gardner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on December 7, 2020).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781839104350

183910435X

Publisher Number:

40030284736

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