The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. 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 ?%ric Toussaint argues for a radical reversal of this balance of accounts through the repudiation of sovereigndebt. ?%ric Toussaint, Senior Lecturer at the University of Li?ge, is President of Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts, Belgium. He is the co-author ofDebt, the IMF, and the World Bank, Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.

The Debt System : A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation, Used [Hardcover]