In this book Ann Pettifor examines the issues of debt affecting the first world or OECD countries. She traces the … history and roots of where the current international debt crisis comes from--economic liberalization--and the restructuring of … Pettifor's discussion of the justice and morality of debt. …

. The discipline narrative is also incompatible with the view that deposits and other forms of short-term bank debt … equity and reliance on short-term debt that appeals to debt overhang and government guarantees and subsidies for debt. In …