Making of the Indebted Man - An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition (Lazzarato Maurizio)(Paperback)

A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist "new economy" through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation."The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between workers and the unemployed, consumers and producers, working and non-working populations, between retirees and welfare recipients. They are all 'debtors, ' guilty and responsible in the eyes of capital, which has become the Great, the Universal, Creditor."
--from The Making of the Indebted ManDebt--both public debt and private debt--has become a major concern of economic and political leaders. In The Making of the Indebted Man, Maurizio Lazzarato shows that, far from being a threat to the capitalist economy, debt lies at the very core of the
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