Gambling Debt : Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©[2015]Description: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
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Preface / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson -- Introduction: The banality of financial evil / Gisli Palsson and E. Paul Durrenberger -- Prologue: Some poetic thoughts concerning meltdowns / Einar Már Gumundsson -- Vikings invade present-day Iceland / Kristín Loftsdóttir -- Exploiting Icelandic history: 2000-2008 / Guni Th. Jóhannesson -- Free market ideology, crony capitalism, and social resilience / Örn D. Jónsson and Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson -- A day in the life of an Icelandic banker / Már Wolfgang Mixa -- Something rotten in the state of Iceland: "The production of truth" about the Icelandic banks / Vilhjálmur Árnason -- Overthrowing the government: a case study in protest / Jón Gunnar Bernburg -- "Welcome to the revolution!" Voting in the Anarcho-surrealists / Hulda Proppe -- Creativity and crisis / Tinna Gretarsdóttir, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, and Hannes Lárusson -- Groundtruthing individual transferable quotas / Evelyn Pinkerton -- Virtual fish stink, too / James Maguire -- The resilience of rural Iceland / Margaret Willson and Birna Gunnlaugsdóttir -- When fishing rights go up against human rights / Níels Einarsson -- Schools in two communities weather the crash / Guný S. Gubjörnsdóttir and Sigurlína Davísdóttir -- What happened to the migrant workers? / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir -- Icelandic language schools after the crash / Pamela Joan Innes -- Charity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland / James G. Rice -- Epilogue: The neoliberal con / Dimitra Doukas -- Retrospect / James Carrier.
Summary: 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.
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Preface / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson -- Introduction: The banality of financial evil / Gisli Palsson and E. Paul Durrenberger -- Prologue: Some poetic thoughts concerning meltdowns / Einar Már Gumundsson -- Vikings invade present-day Iceland / Kristín Loftsdóttir -- Exploiting Icelandic history: 2000-2008 / Guni Th. Jóhannesson -- Free market ideology, crony capitalism, and social resilience / Örn D. Jónsson and Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson -- A day in the life of an Icelandic banker / Már Wolfgang Mixa -- Something rotten in the state of Iceland: "The production of truth" about the Icelandic banks / Vilhjálmur Árnason -- Overthrowing the government: a case study in protest / Jón Gunnar Bernburg -- "Welcome to the revolution!" Voting in the Anarcho-surrealists / Hulda Proppe -- Creativity and crisis / Tinna Gretarsdóttir, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, and Hannes Lárusson -- Groundtruthing individual transferable quotas / Evelyn Pinkerton -- Virtual fish stink, too / James Maguire -- The resilience of rural Iceland / Margaret Willson and Birna Gunnlaugsdóttir -- When fishing rights go up against human rights / Níels Einarsson -- Schools in two communities weather the crash / Guný S. Gubjörnsdóttir and Sigurlína Davísdóttir -- What happened to the migrant workers? / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir -- Icelandic language schools after the crash / Pamela Joan Innes -- Charity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland / James G. Rice -- Epilogue: The neoliberal con / Dimitra Doukas -- Retrospect / James Carrier.

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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.

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