The Coming First World Debt Crisis »

ANN PETTIFOR was the co-founder of Jubilee 2000 which campaigned for debt relief at the turn of the millennium and is now a Director of Advocacy International, which works with debtor governments, and has helped countries like Nigeria, Ethiopia and Guyana write off millions of dollars of debt.

This book examines the history and roots of where the current international first world debt crisis stems from and examines debt on sovereign, company, household and individual levels.

Acknowledgements     vi
Introduction     1
Globalization: the House that Finance Built     26
Costless Money and Costly Credit     56
Easy Credit: Costly Debts     84
Poor Country Debt Crises: Causes and Parallels     108
Moneytheism and Lawless Finance     120
Debtonation? When and Why will it Happen?     145
Things Don't Have to be This Way     163
Index     182