the editors -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction to interest and debt … -- Introduction -- The interest-bearing debt: conceptual framework -- Theory of interest -- Interest-bearing debt in ancient …-bearing debt in ancient civilizations: Sumerian era -- Introduction -- Nature of interest-bearing debt in ancient civilizations and …

"It would be difficult to examine interest-free alternative financial systems without reviewing the evolution of debt …; thus, this book offers a chronological account of the development of interest-bearing debt and contributors offer their … review of the impact of these interest-bearing debt and practices upon social relations and institutions, throughout the …

Introduction / Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock, and Sophia A. McClennen -- Theory and history -- The rights to debt … -- Materialism : debt and sensuality / Christopher Breu -- The indebted man's cognitive mapping : boundaries and biohorror in the … neoliberal debt economy / Liane Tanguay -- Living in the debt age -- The debt experience / Jeffrey J. Williams -- Paying your …