Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy

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Titel: Gambling Debt : Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy

Enthält: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Before the Beginning -- Vikings Invade Present-Day Iceland -- Exploiting Icelandic History -- Free Market Ideology, Crony Capitalism, and Social Resilience -- A Day in the Life of an Icelandic Banker -- Something Rotten in the State of Iceland -- After the Crash -- Overthrowing the Government -- “Welcome to the Revolution!” -- Creativity and Crisis -- The Magic of “Virtual” Fish -- Groundtruthing Individual Transferable Quotas -- Virtual Fish Stink, Too -- The Resilience of Rural Iceland -- When Fishing Rights Go Up against Human Rights -- The Crash and Communities -- Schools in Two Communities Weather the Crash -- What Happened to the Migrant Workers? -- Icelandic Language Schools after the Crash -- Charity in Pre- and Post-Crisis Iceland -- Summing Up -- Epilogue -- Retrospect -- References -- Index

Beteiligte: Lárusson, Hannes [Mitwirkende:r]; Bernburg, Jón Gunnar [Mitwirkende:r]; Carrier, James G. [Mitwirkende:r]; Davíðsdóttir, Sigurlína [Mitwirkende:r]; Doukas, Dimitra [Mitwirkende:r]; Durrenberger, E. Paul [Mitwirkende:r]; Durrenberger, E. Paul [Herausgeber:in]; Einarsson, Níels [Mitwirkende:r]; Grétarsdóttir, Tinna [Mitwirkende:r]; Gunnlaugsdóttir, Birna [Mitwirkende:r]; Guðbjörnsdóttir, Guðný S. [Mitwirkende:r]; Guðmundsson, Einar Már [Mitwirkende:r]; Innes, Pamela Joan [Mitwirkende:r]; Jóhannesson, Guðni Th. [Mitwirkende:r]; Jónsson, Örn D. [Mitwirkende:r]; Loftsdóttir, Kristín [Mitwirkende:r]; Maguire, James [Mitwirkende:r]; Mixa, Már Wolfgang [Mitwirkende:r]; Palsson, Gisli [Mitwirkende:r]; Palsson, Gisli [Herausgeber:in]; Pinkerton, Evelyn [Mitwirkende:r]; Proppé, Hulda [Mitwirkende:r]; Rice, James G. [Mitwirkende:r]; Skaptadóttir, Unnur Dís [Mitwirkende:r]; Sæmundsson, Rögnvaldu J. [Mitwirkende:r]; Willson, Margaret [Mitwirkende:r]; Árnason, Vilhjálmur [Mitwirkende:r]; Ásmundsson, Ásmundur [Mitwirkende:r]

Körperschaft: National Science Foundation

Erschienen: Denver, CO: University Press of Colorado, [2014]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.); 9

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.5876/9781607323358

ISBN: 9781607323358

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Schlagwörter: Debts, External 21st century Iceland ; Debts, External Iceland 21st century ; Financial crises History 21st century Iceland ; Financial crises Iceland History 21st century ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland’s 2008 financial collapse was the first case in a series of meltdowns, a warning of danger in the global order. This full-scale anthropology of financialization and the economic crisis broadly discusses this momentous bubble and burst and places it in theoretical, anthropological, and global historical context through descriptions of the complex developments leading to it and the larger social and cultural implications and consequences. Chapters from anthropologists, sociologists, historians, economists, and key local participants focus on the neoliberal policies—mainly the privatization of banks and fishery resources—that concentrated wealth among a select few, skewed the distribution of capital in a way that Iceland had never experienced before, and plunged the country into a full-scale economic crisis. Gambling Debt significantly raises the level of understanding and debate on the issues relevant to financial crises, painting a portrait of the meltdown from many points of view—from bankers to schoolchildren, from fishers in coastal villages to the urban poor and immigrants, and from artists to philosophers and other intellectuals. This book is for anyone interested in financial troubles and neoliberal politics as well as students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, economics, philosophy, political science, business, and ethics. Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation. Contributors: Vilhjálmur Árnason, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, Jón Gunnar Bernburg, James Carrier, Sigurlína Davíðsdóttir, Dimitra Doukas, Níels Einarsson, Einar Mar Guðmundsson, Tinna Grétarsdóttir, Birna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Guðný S. Guðbjörnsdóttir, Pamela Joan Innes, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, Örn D. Jónsson, Hannes Lárusson, Kristín Loftsdóttir, James Maguire, Már Wolfgang Mixa, Evelyn Pinkerton, Hulda Proppé, James G. Rice, Rögnvaldur J. Sæmundsson, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, Margaret Willson

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