Gambling debt
Subtitle: Iceland's rise and fall in the global economy
By: edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson
Contributors: Gísli Pálsson, 1949-
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781607323341
Subjects: External Debts; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Financial crises; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson; title: Introduction: The banality of financial evil / Gisli Palsson and E. Paul Durrenberger; title: Prologue: Some poetic thoughts concerning meltdowns / Einar Már Guðmundsson; title: Vikings invade present-day Iceland / Kristín Loftsdóttir; title: Exploiting Icelandic history: 2000-2008 / Guðni Th. Jóhannesson; title: Free market ideology, crony capitalism, and social resilience / Örn D. Jónsson and Rögnvaldur J. Sæmundsson; title: A day in the life of an Icelandic banker / Már Wolfgang Mixa; title: Something rotten in the state of Iceland: "The production of truth" about the Icelandic banks / Vilhjálmur Árnason; title: Overthrowing the government: a case study in protest / Jón Gunnar Bernburg; title: "Welcome to the revolution!" Voting in the Anarcho-surrealists / Hulda Proppé; title: Creativity and crisis / Tinna Grétarsdóttir, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, and Hannes Lárusson; title: Groundtruthing individual transferable quotas / Evelyn Pinkerton; title: Virtual fish stink, too / James Maguire; title: The resilience of rural Iceland / Margaret Willson and Birna Gunnlaugsdóttir; title: When fishing rights go up against human rights / Níels Einarsson; title: Schools in two communities weather the crash / Guðný S. Guðbjörnsdóttir and Sigurlína Davíðsdóttir; title: What happened to the migrant workers? / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir; title: Icelandic language schools after the crash / Pamela Joan Innes; title: Charity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland / James G. Rice; title: Epilogue: The neoliberal con / Dimitra Doukas; title: Retrospect / James Carrier.