Debt to Society : Accounting for Life under Capitalism /

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It is commonplace to say that criminals pay their debt to society by spending time in prison, but what is a "debt to society"? How is crime understood as a debt? How has time become the equivalent for crime? And how does criminal debt relate to the kind of debt held by consumers and univer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joseph, Miranda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Accounting > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Anthropology / Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Finances > Aspect social.
Finance > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Modes of Accounting; 1 Accounting for Debt: Toward a Methodology of Critical Abstraction; 2 Accounting for Justice: Beyond Liberal Calculations of Debt and Crime; 3 Accounting for Time: The Entrepreneurial Subject in Crisis; 4 Accounting for Gender: Norms and Pathologies of Personal Finance; 5 Accounting for Interdisciplinarity: Contesting Value in the Academy.

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