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Title Gambling debt : Iceland's rise and fall in the global economy / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson.

Publication Info. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xlii, 284 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson -- Introduction: The banality of financial evil / Gisli Palsson and E. Paul Durrenberger -- Prologue: Some poetic thoughts concerning meltdowns / Einar Már Guðmundsson -- Vikings invade present-day Iceland / Kristín Loftsdóttir -- Exploiting Icelandic history: 2000-2008 / Guðni Th. Jóhannesson -- Free market ideology, crony capitalism, and social resilience / Örn D. Jónsson and Rögnvaldur J. Sæmundsson -- A day in the life of an Icelandic banker / Már Wolfgang Mixa -- Something rotten in the state of Iceland: "The production of truth" about the Icelandic banks / Vilhjálmur Árnason -- Overthrowing the government: a case study in protest / Jón Gunnar Bernburg -- "Welcome to the revolution!" Voting in the Anarcho-surrealists / Hulda Proppé -- Creativity and crisis / Tinna Grétarsdóttir, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, and Hannes Lárusson -- Groundtruthing individual transferable quotas / Evelyn Pinkerton -- Virtual fish stink, too / James Maguire -- The resilience of rural Iceland / Margaret Willson and Birna Gunnlaugsdóttir -- When fishing rights go up against human rights / Níels Einarsson -- Schools in two communities weather the crash / Guðný S. Guðbjörnsdóttir and Sigurlína Davíðsdóttir -- What happened to the migrant workers? / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir -- Icelandic language schools after the crash / Pamela Joan Innes -- Charity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland / James G. Rice -- Epilogue: The neoliberal con / Dimitra Doukas -- Retrospect / James Carrier.
Note Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
Subject Iceland -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Financial crises -- Iceland -- History -- 21st century.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Debts, External -- Iceland -- 21st century.
Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) (OCoLC)fst01755654
Debts, External. (OCoLC)fst00888828
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Financial crises. (OCoLC)fst00924607
Iceland. (OCoLC)fst01210572
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Added Author Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- editor.
Gísli Pálsson, 1949- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Durrenberger, E. Paul Gambling Debt : Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy Boulder : University Press of Colorado,c2014 9781607323341
ISBN 9781607323358 (electronic bk.)
1607323354 (electronic bk.)
9781457188510 (electronic bk.)
1457188511 (electronic bk.)
9781457188497 (electronic bk.)
145718849X (electronic bk.)
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