BOOKS DEBT

 

SHORT LIST

 

Ashton, Jerry, Robert Goff, End Medical Debt: Curing America’s $1 Trillion Unpayable Healthcare Debt, Hoku House; Illustrated edition, 2018

 

Brown, Ellen Hodgson, Reed Simpson, Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth about Our Money System and How We Can Break Free, Third Millennium Press; 5th Revised ed. Edition, 2012

 

Brown, Ellen, Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age, Democracy Collaborative, 2019

Calder, Lendol, Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (Princeton Paperbacks), Princeton University Press, 2001

  

Eichengreen, Barry, Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 (NBER Series on Long-term Factors in Economic Development), Oxford University Press; First Soft Cover Edition, 1996

 

Friedman, Milton, Anna Jacobson Schwartz, The Great Contraction, 1929-1933: New Edition (Princeton Classic Editions), Princeton University Press, 2008

 

Goldrick-Rab, Sara, Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream, University of Chicago Press; Reprint edition, 2017

Graeber, David, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Melville House; Revised ed. Edition, 2014

 

Hudson, Michael, ...and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (1) (Tyranny of Debt), ISLET, 2018

 

Hudson, Michael, Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy, ISLET, 2015

 

Hyman, Louis, Borrow: The American Way of Debt, Vintage; Illustrated edition, 2012

 

Johnson, Simon, James Kwak, White House Burning: Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You, Vintage; Illustrated edition, 2013

 

Kelton, Stephanie, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy, PublicAffairs; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Macdonald, James, A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy, Princeton University Press; 1st Princeton Ed edition, 2006

 

Mian, Atif, Amir Sufi, House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again, University of Chicago Press, 2015

 

Quinn, Sarah L., American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives), Princeton University Press, 2019

 

Roos, Jerome E., Why Not Default?: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt, Princeton University Press, 2021

 

Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy, Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2021

 

Toussaint, Éric, The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation, Haymarket Books, 2019

 

Vague, Richard, The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023

 

Volcker, Paul A., Christine Harper, Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government, PublicAffairs; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Weatherford, Jack, The History of Money, Currency; Reprint edition, 1998

OTHERS

Best, Joel, Eric Best, The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem, University of California Press, 2014

 

Bonner, Will, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Agora Series), Wiley, 2006

 

Bonner, Will, Addison Wiggin, The New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble, Wiley; 2nd edition, 2009

 

Debt Collective, Astra Taylor, Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition, Haymarket Books, 2020

 

Draut, Tamara, Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead, Anchor; Illustrated edition, 2007

 

Geisst, Charles R., Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt, University of Pennsylvania Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Goff, Robert E., Jerry Ashton, The Patient, The Doctor and The Bill Collector: A Medical Debt Survival Guide, Hoku House, 2016

 

Jackson, Andrew, Ben Dyson, Modernising Money: Why Our Monetary System is Broken and How it Can be Fixed, Positive Money, 1800

 

Johannsen, Cryn, Solving the Student Loan Crisis: Dreams, Diplomas & A Lifetime Debt, New Insights Press, 2016

 

Lanchester, John, I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

 

McMahon, Dinny, Chinas Great Wall Of Debt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018

 

Mitchell, Josh, The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe, Simon & Schuster, 2022

 

Peet, Richard, Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO, Zed Books; 2nd edition, 2009

 

Rickards, James, The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, Portfolio; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Rivlin, Gary, Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.―How the Working Poor Became Big Business, Harper Business; Reprint edition, 2011

 

Sandage, Scott A., Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, Harvard University Press, 2006

 

Steuerle, C. Eugene, Dead Men Ruling: How to Restore Fiscal Freedom and Rescue Our Future, The Century Foundation Press, 2014 

 

Toussaint, Eric, Damien Millet, Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Press, 2010