In many rich democracies, access to financial markets is now a prerequisite for fully participating in labor and housing markets and pursuing educational opport

Wiedemann reveals how the rise of financial markets as private alternatives to welfare states transforms social rights and responsibilities.

"'Indebted' takes readers into the homes of middle-class families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that fina

As governments and individuals struggle with growing indebtedness, the topic of debt itself – what it is, what it means, and how we understand it – has neve

A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist “new economy” through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation. "The debtor-creditor rela