Keiko Yokoyama was Associate Professor at Hiroshima University (Japan) and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and University of Oslo. I received Ph.D from UCL in 2003. I am the author of Reasoning Higher Education Change (Peter Lang 2013) and Government, Policy and Ideology (University Press of America 2010). My latest publication includes ‘Land still matters’ (2020), New Europe 4th December (https://www.neweurope.eu/
A Christmas Carol and the Rise of the Debt Society in the 21st Century
Dickens’ story embodies the nature of contemporary economic problems which we face, in terms of interest, debt traps and the meaning of the financial economy for both the haves and the have-nots.
January 14, 2021