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oapen-20.500.12657-577972022-08-25T13:53:29Z Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt Harker, Christopher Horton, Amy prosperity debt economics justice equality sustainability indebtedness finance credit loans borrowing financial education bankruptcy insolvency national economies household economies community economies care economies macroeconomic stagnation economic policy debt advice debt audits debt activism debt cancellation debt forgiveness Jubilee affordable housing survival alternatives bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTF Development studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCG Economic growth bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCR Welfare economics bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems & structures In an era when many of us depend on debt to survive but struggle with its consequences, Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt draws together current thinking on how to solve debt crises and promote prosperity. By profiling existing action by credit unions and community organisations, alongside bold proposals for the future, with contributions from artists, activists and academics, the book shows how we can rethink the validity and inevitability of many contemporary forms of debt through organising debt audits, promoting debt cancellation and expanding member-owned co-operatives. The authors set out legal and political methods for changing the rules of the system to provide debt relief and reshape economies for more inclusive and sustainable flourishing. The book also profiles community-based actions that are changing the role of debt in economic, social and political life – among them, participatory art projects, radical advice networks and ways of financing feminist green transition. While much of the research and activism documented here has taken place in London, the contributors show how different initiatives draw from and generate inspiration elsewhere, from debt audits across the global south, creative interventions around the UK and grassroots movements in North America. Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt moves beyond critique to present a wealth of concrete ways to tackle debt and forge the prosperous communities we want for the future. 2022-08-05T15:37:55Z 2022-08-05T15:37:55Z 2022 book ONIX_20220805_9781800081871_7 9781800081871 9781800081888 9781800081895 9781800081901 9781800081918 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57797 eng Global Prosperity in Thought and Practice application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781800081871.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800081871 10.14324/111.9781800081871 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781800081871 9781800081888 9781800081895 9781800081901 9781800081918 UCL Press London open access
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In an era when many of us depend on debt to survive but struggle with its consequences, Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt draws together current thinking on how to solve debt crises and promote prosperity. By profiling existing action by credit unions and community organisations, alongside bold proposals for the future, with contributions from artists, activists and academics, the book shows how we can rethink the validity and inevitability of many contemporary forms of debt through organising debt audits, promoting debt cancellation and expanding member-owned co-operatives. The authors set out legal and political methods for changing the rules of the system to provide debt relief and reshape economies for more inclusive and sustainable flourishing. The book also profiles community-based actions that are changing the role of debt in economic, social and political life – among them, participatory art projects, radical advice networks and ways of financing feminist green transition. While much of the research and activism documented here has taken place in London, the contributors show how different initiatives draw from and generate inspiration elsewhere, from debt audits across the global south, creative interventions around the UK and grassroots movements in North America. Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt moves beyond critique to present a wealth of concrete ways to tackle debt and forge the prosperous communities we want for the future.
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