TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harker,Christopher
AU  - Harker,Christopher
AU  - Horton,Amy
AU  - Horton,Amy
TI  - Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt
T2  - Global Prosperity in Thought and Practice
SN  - 111.9781800081871
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - UCL Press
KW  - Development economics & emerging economies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Development studies
KW  - Economic growth
KW  - Economic systems & structures
KW  - Political science & theory
KW  - Welfare economics
KW  - affordable housing
KW  - alternatives
KW  - bankruptcy
KW  - borrowing
KW  - care economies
KW  - community economies
KW  - credit
KW  - debt
KW  - debt activism
KW  - debt advice
KW  - debt audits
KW  - debt cancellation
KW  - debt forgiveness
KW  - economic policy
KW  - economics
KW  - equality
KW  - finance
KW  - financial education
KW  - household economies
KW  - indebtedness
KW  - insolvency
KW  - Jubilee
KW  - justice
KW  - loans
KW  - macroeconomic stagnation
KW  - national economies
KW  - prosperity
KW  - survival
KW  - sustainability
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e0386f3f-1807-4a8d-8df7-ba54b4f1355f/9781800081871.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57797
ER  -