Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. 2019 Level: beginner Austerity Konzelmann, Suzanne J. Polity Money is the fantasy that makes the world go round. Where did it come from and what is its future? From the Bank of England to Bitcoin and the Bristol Pound, LSE sociologist Nigel Dodd explores. Level: beginner The future of money Nigel Dodd LSE In this sharp intervention, authors Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction. 2021 Level: beginner A Feminist Reading of Debt Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago Pluto Press In this dossier, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie highlights the need for debt cancellation for countries of the Global South and the payment of reparations for the climate catastrophe caused by the Global North. 2024 Level: beginner Climate Debt and Reparations Oumarou F. Mfochivé and Matthias Schmelzer Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie David Graeber introduces different concepts such as money and debt. He takes a historical and anthropological way of explaining the origin. This breaks with the mainstream explanation, which is used in many Economics textbooks, saying that a barter economy was before money arose. 2014 Level: advanced Debt David Graeber Melville House In Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana develops the concept of neoliberal coloniality in light of Puerto Rico's debt crisis. Drawing on decolonial thought and praxis, Zambrana shows how debt functions as an apparatus of predation that transforms how neoliberalism operates. 2021 Level: advanced Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana Duke University Press