Viral Debt

Name: Viral Debt
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781032758831
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The Production and Reproduction of Economic Vulnerability

Brief Description

Challenging how social scientists, policymakers, legal scholars, and the public examine household debts and wellbeing, Viral Debt traces how debt moves within and across households to communities and institutions, with devastating effects.Debt is not merely a contractual condition, it is also an inherently unequal relationship between... Read More

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Viral Debt

$41⁹⁹

Challenging how social scientists, policymakers, legal scholars, and the public examine household debts and wellbeing, Viral Debt traces how debt moves within and across households to communities and institutions, with devastating effects.

Description

Debt is not merely a contractual condition, it is also an inherently unequal relationship between creditor and debtor that can exploit pre-existing vulnerabilities while creating new ones. With a roster of leading social science and socio-legal scholars, this book shows how debt – like a contagion – works systematically across economic and social structures and geographies, demonstrating the ways in which policy has exacerbated the problem of debt through policy choices.

This volume offers urgent answers by drawing on quantitative data about household indebtedness, credit and debt policies, and local court actions, together with qualitative research.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032758831

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 5 Tables, black and white; 20 Line drawings, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Frederick F. Wherry
Edited by Jodi Gardner
Edited by Mia Gray

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 252

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jodi Gardner is a Professor and the Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland. Her research focuses on the relationship between private law and social policy. Jodi was formerly a Fellow at St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

Mia Gray is a Professor of Economic Geography at Cambridge University. She has published extensively on contemporary austerity, debt, and regional economies. She is also one of the editors of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

Frederick F. Wherry is the Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Founder of the Debt Collection Lab. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of nine books, including Credit Where It’s Due and Money Talks. His forthcoming book is What We Owe: How Debt Came for All of Us and How We Get Free.