Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy

Essays exploring questions of what we owe—to corporations, to governments, to each other, to the past, and to the future.
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives.
They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are ba...