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Personal debt, cognitive delinquency and techniques of governmentality: neoliberal constructions of financial inadequacy in the UK

REA Auditado

In the UK in recent years, there has been a considerable and sustained increase in both levels of personal debt and over-indebtedness. This commentary argues that recent UK policy formulation on personal debt management has sidelined problematic macroscopic political and economic changes by locating personal debt as a problem of individual financial incompetence. Through specific institutions, tools,
techniques and practices, certain configurations of people in debt have been rendered knowable and
changeable.

Tema: general: 

• Ciencias de la Salud

Credible commitment in early modern Europe : north and Weingast revisited

REA Auditado

This paper proposes a revision to existing arguments that institutions of limited government (characterized by multiple veto points) improve the ability of governments to credibly commit. Focusing on the issue of sovereign indebtedness, I present a simple framework for analyzing credibility problems in an economy divided between owners of land and owners of capital.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía