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Download or read book Unjust Debts written by Melissa B. Jacoby and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America “Unjust Debts throws open the doors and windows to the bankruptcy system so readers can see for themselves how this law works and doesn’t work for the real people it so profoundly affects.” —Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many—a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. In this brilliant and paradigm-shifting book, legal scholar Melissa B. Jacoby shows how bankruptcy has also become an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, and governments, contributing in unseen and poorly understood ways to race, gender, and class inequality in America. When cities go bankrupt, for example, police unions enjoy added leverage while police brutality victims are denied a seat at the negotiating table; the system is more forgiving of civil rights abuses than of the parking tickets disproportionately distributed in African American neighborhoods. Across a broad range of crucial issues, Unjust Debts reveals the hidden mechanisms by which bankruptcy impacts everything from sexual harassment to health care, police violence to employment discrimination, and the opioid crisis to gun violence. In the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s groundbreaking Evicted, Unjust Debts is a riveting and original work of accessible scholarship with huge implications for ordinary people and will set the terms of debate for this vital subject.
Download or read book Just Debt written by Ilsup Ahn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .".. We [have] come to have a delimited and skewed view on debt and its economy ... In this book, I argue, a more holistic social ethics of debt is established by reintegrating these two essential elements of debt: logic and story. From the perspective of a more holistic ethics of debt, neoliberal concept of debt is problematic because by neglecting the story aspect of debt, it has enervated the moral ethos of debt rendering it as a matter of mere contract and mechanical calculation"--Introduction.
Download or read book Payback written by Margaret Atwood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores debt as a central historical component of religion, literature, and societal structure, while examining the idea of humanity's debt to the natural world.
Book Synopsis The Doctrine of Odious Debt in International Law by : Jeff King
Download or read book The Doctrine of Odious Debt in International Law written by Jeff King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines how odious debts are not legally binding under international or domestic law, contrary to widely held legal opinion.
Book Synopsis Unfair Debts with No Way out by : Kuehnhoff
Download or read book Unfair Debts with No Way out written by Kuehnhoff and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Payment of Another's Debts ; Can Unjust Enrichment Provide the Solution? by : Amy Margaret Smith
Download or read book Payment of Another's Debts ; Can Unjust Enrichment Provide the Solution? written by Amy Margaret Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beggar Thy Neighbor by : Charles R. Geisst
Download or read book Beggar Thy Neighbor written by Charles R. Geisst and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin. While the concept of usury reflects transcendent notions of fairness, its definition has varied over time and place: Roman law distinguished between simple and compound interest, the medieval church banned interest altogether, and even Adam Smith favored a ceiling on interest. But in spite of these limits, the advantages and temptations of lending prompted financial innovations from margin investing and adjustable-rate mortgages to credit cards and microlending. In Beggar Thy Neighbor, financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit. Beggar Thy Neighbor examines the major debt revolutions of the past, demonstrating that extensive leverage and debt were behind most financial market crashes from the Renaissance to the present day. Geisst argues that usury prohibitions, as part of the natural law tradition in Western and Islamic societies, continue to play a key role in banking regulation despite modern advances in finance. From the Roman Empire to the recent Dodd-Frank financial reforms, usury ceilings still occupy a central place in notions of free markets and economic justice.
Book Synopsis The Classical Debt by : Johanna Hanink
Download or read book The Classical Debt written by Johanna Hanink and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the International Monetary Fund’s first bailout of Greece’s sinking economy in 2010, the phrase “Greek debt” has meant one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Where did this other idea of Greek debt come from, Johanna Hanink asks, and why does it remain so compelling today? The Classical Debt investigates our abiding desire to view Greece through the lens of the ancient past. Though classical Athens was in reality a slave-owning imperial power, the city-state of Socrates and Pericles is still widely seen as a utopia of wisdom, justice, and beauty—an idealization that the ancient Athenians themselves assiduously cultivated. Greece’s allure as a travel destination dates back centuries, and Hanink examines many historical accounts that express disappointment with a Greek people who fail to live up to modern fantasies of the ancient past. More than any other movement, the spread of European philhellenism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries carved idealized conceptions of Greece in marble, reinforcing the Western habit of comparing the Greece that is with the Greece that once was. Today, as the European Union teeters and neighboring nations are convulsed by political unrest and civil war, Greece finds itself burdened by economic hardship and an unprecedented refugee crisis. Our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes how we view these contemporary European problems.
Book Synopsis Punishment Without Crime, Or, Imprisonment for Debt by : Walter J. Baldwin
Download or read book Punishment Without Crime, Or, Imprisonment for Debt written by Walter J. Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Punishment without Crime: or Imprisonment for Debt proved unjust ... in an address to the Prince Regent ... and in a petition to the Houses of Lords and Commons; with notes and essays; together with letters to and from Lords Moira, Folkstone, etc by : Walter J. BALDWIN
Download or read book Punishment without Crime: or Imprisonment for Debt proved unjust ... in an address to the Prince Regent ... and in a petition to the Houses of Lords and Commons; with notes and essays; together with letters to and from Lords Moira, Folkstone, etc written by Walter J. BALDWIN and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by : Great Britain. Parliament
Download or read book Hansard's Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by : David Shephard Garland
Download or read book The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law written by David Shephard Garland and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American and English Encyclopædia of Law by : David Shephard Garland
Download or read book The American and English Encyclopædia of Law written by David Shephard Garland and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Map of Europe by Treaty by : Sir Edward Hertslet
Download or read book The Map of Europe by Treaty written by Sir Edward Hertslet and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Map of Europe by Treaty: 1864-1875. Indice (1589-1976 p.) by : Sir Edward Hertslet
Download or read book The Map of Europe by Treaty: 1864-1875. Indice (1589-1976 p.) written by Sir Edward Hertslet and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee for the Eastern Division, September Term, 1881 by : Benjamin James Lea
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee for the Eastern Division, September Term, 1881 written by Benjamin James Lea and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
