Debt. Paik, The environment, and the economy : ethics, the environment, and the economy

Essays exploring questions of what we owe—to corporations, to governments, to each other, to the past, and to the future. From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity involves the artist's dialogue with the works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations. "A welcome range of new perspectives on what has become a central issue for contemporary debate." — Anthropological Notebooks Debt / Richard D. Wolff -- I Consider It Un-american Not To Have A Mortgage : Immigrant Home Ownership In Chicago / Elaine Lewinnek -- Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance / Mary Poovey -- On Debt / Michael Allen Gillespie -- The Growth Imperative : Prosperity Or Poverty / Joel Magnuson -- Democracy's Debt : Capitalism And Cultural Revolution / Stephen L. Gardner -- Is Debt The New Karma? : Why America Finally Fell Apart / Morris Berman -- Measures Of Time : Exploring Debt, Imagination, And Real Nature / Julianne Lutz Warren -- The Time Of Living Dead Species : Extinction Debt And Futurity In Madagascar / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Unintended Consequences And The Epistemology Of Fraud In Dickens And Hayek / Eleanor Courtemanche -- The Resurrection Of An Economic God : Keynes Becomes Postmodern / Michael Tratner -- China And The United States : The Bonds Of Debt / Donald D. Hester -- Debt's Moral / Kennan Ferguson -- Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice And Ecological Scale / Gerry Canavan. Edited By Peter Y. Paik And Merry Weisner-hanks. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Debt 2. “I Consider it Un-American not to have a Mortgage”: Immigrant Home Ownership in Chicago 3. Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance 4. On Debt 5. The Growth Imperative: Prosperity or Poverty 6. Democracy’s Debt: Capitalism and Cultural Revolution 7. Is Debt the New Karma? Why America Finally Fell Apart 8. Measures of Time: Exploring Debt, Imagination, and Real Nature 9. The Time of Living Dead Species: Extinction Debt and Futurity in Madagascar 10. Unintended Consequences and the Epistemology of Fraud in Dickens and Hayek 11. The Resurrection of an Economic God: Keynes becomes Postmodern 12. China and the United States: The Bonds of Debt 13. Debt’s Moral 14. Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice and Ecological Scale Index Contributors From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and philosophic dialogue with the works of the past is indispensable for developing insights into the economic and ecological crises of the present; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations. Book jacket