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Book SynopsisTrade Review "
Debt to Society provides an innovative and ambitious scholarly intervention across a wide swath of fields, with much fresh thinking and provocative reframing in every one. Miranda Joseph analyzes the diverse and conflicted neoliberal norm of entrepreneurial subjectivity, searching for and illuminating its possible breaking points." —Lisa Duggan, New York University
"I’ve been distressed by the increasing focus on debt as a central instrument of social control. Miranda Joseph offers a much richer reading of how debt is embedded in a larger system of social control via accounting. But this is no screed against accounting—it is instead a guide to thinking about how we use statistics and other forms of abstraction, and how we might rethink the practice to produce a better world. I learned a lot from it." —Doug Henwood editor,
Left Business ObserverTable of ContentsContents
Introduction: Modes of Accounting
1. Accounting for Debt: Toward a Methodology of Critical Abstraction
2. Accounting for Justice: Beyond Liberal Calculations of Debt and Crime
3. Accounting for Time: The Entrepreneurial Subject in Crisis
4. Accounting for Gender: Norms and Pathologies of Personal Finance
5. Accounting for Interdisciplinarity: Contesting Value in the Academy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
