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. |
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Description based on vendor-supplied metadata. |
Subject |
Iceland -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Financial crises -- Iceland -- History -- 21st century.
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
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Debts, External -- Iceland -- 21st century.
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Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) (OCoLC)fst01755654
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Debts, External. (OCoLC)fst00888828
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Financial crises. (OCoLC)fst00924607
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Iceland. (OCoLC)fst01210572
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Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- editor.
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Gísli Pálsson, 1949- editor.
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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.) |
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1607323354 (electronic bk.) |
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9781457188510 (electronic bk.) |
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1457188511 (electronic bk.) |
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9781457188497 (electronic bk.) |
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145718849X (electronic bk.) |
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