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Creditocracy (n.) 1. governance or the holding of power in the interests of a creditor class 2. a society where access to vital needs is financed through debt It seems like pretty much everybody homeowners, students, those who are ill and without health insurance, and, of course, credit card holders is up to their neck in debt that can never be repaid. 77% of US households are seriously indebted and one in seven Americans has been pursued by debt collectors. The major banks are bigger and more profitable than before the 2008 crash, and legislators are all but powerless to bring them to heel. In this forceful, eye-opening survey, Andrew Ross contends that we are in the cruel grip of a creditocracy where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. The implications of mass indebtedness for any democracy are profound, and history shows that whenever a creditor class becomes as powerful as Wall Street, the result has been debt bondage for the bulk of the population. Following in the ancient tradition of the jubilee, activists have had some success in repudiating the debts of developing countries. T

Who reads Creditocracy : and the Case for Debt Refusal?

Author

Ross, Andrew

Publisher

OR Books, LLC

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781939293398

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Finance, Political Science, Government & Politics

Rating

3.73 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14