Debt Welfare States

"Being indebted and being confined to the financial sphere is now part of our daily life. Susanne Soederberg explains how we came to this day by examining the power relations and state interventions behind the appearance of equality created by the money society. This study, which is an indispensable reading for those who want to manage the tensions fed by debt prosperity and understand the strategies of the neoliberal state, is also "It also shows the power and possibilities of the historical materialist perspective."
-Ali Rıza Güngen-


"Susanne Soederberg starts from the question of how it is that impoverishing neoliberal programs can draw large segments of people into the system at the same time. She gives her answers by both enriching the historical materialist theoretical framework and supporting this framework with concrete data. She explains that the indebtedness of those whose incomes do not increase and this becoming a privileged profit-making activity It clearly reveals the dynamics behind it, the mechanisms of how this happens and its possible consequences.

"The story of all debtors is told."
-Ümit Akçay-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 424

Year of Print: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Nota Bene Publications

Number of Pages: 424

First Print Year: 2016

Language: Turkish