New Orleans I have sometimes been critical of the Grameen Bank, the microlending institution founded in Bangladesh, and am generally skeptical of claims that debt is an effective poverty reduction mechanism, but the efforts of the Bangladesh government to take control of the institution, seemingly to seize all of its social enterprise assets is troubling. It’s …
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Dunning Dead Debt-beats and the Occupy Anthropology of Debt
New Orleans The notion that there might be a “house theorist” in the tent cities of the Occupy movement was interesting in and of itself, but the fact that such soul would be David Graeber who recently wrote, Debt: The First 5000 Years, was even more interesting to me. This whole debt thing is …
Education is Not Reducing Poverty
New Orleans Anytime there’s an article with a headline that claims there is “hope for the world’s poorest” and the author is someone as sturdy as New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, my fingers are crossed and my eyes are flying. In this case he was touting a new book and argument by a British …