Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-185) and index.
Toward a stark utopia -- Origins: war, national debt, and the capitalized state -- Intensification: war, debt, and colonial power -- Consequences: the debt-growth-inequality nexus -- Solutions: a party of the 99% and the power of debt.
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"Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors."