Over the past thirty years or so, global financial market integration and financial (re)regulation have largely contributed to the increased vulnerability of Developing and Emerging Capitalist Countries (DECC) to the volatile cross-border movement of money and capital. Repeated financial [...]
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Progress in Political Economy has made a wonderful job in compiling reviews and critiques of Susanne Soederberg’s great book Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population. After the introductory summary by the author herself, Cemal Burak Tansel then [...]
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Following the reading of Susanne Soederberg’s Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry by the Past & Present Reading group in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, the group put together “Ten Questions on Debtfare States”. In this fascinating [...]
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In a novel form of engagement, we are presenting here ten questions to Susanne Soederberg on her recent award-winning book Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry, which have been put together by those members of the Past & Present Reading Group that collectively completed the book. A [...]
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“Did you know that approximately 3 million Australians – around 16.9% of the adult population – are either fully or severely excluded from obtaining credit from the banks?” So asks the peak body representing Australia’s payday lenders as part of their Small Loans Big Need [...]
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“Did you know that approximately 3 million Australians – around 16.9% of the adult population – are either fully or severely excluded from obtaining credit from the banks?” So asks the peak body representing Australia’s payday lenders as part of their Small Loans Big Need [...]
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The following post is based on a longer review of the book to be published in September 2016 issue of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
If you were to enter a cryogenic sleep in 2008, wake up in early 2016 and take a quick glance at the fortunes of Western capitalism, you [...]
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With the news that Susanne Soederberg has been awarded the 2015 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize, we are re-posting this feature on her book. There is also a short trailer on Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry, available [...]
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