Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 M�ar Gu�mundsson -- Vikings invade present-day Iceland / Krist�in Loftsd�ottir -- Exploiting Icelandic history: 2000-2008 / Gu�ni Th. J�ohannesson -- Free market ideology, crony capitalism, and social resilience / �Orn D. J�onsson and R�ognvaldur J. S�mundsson -- A day in the life of an Icelandic banker / M�ar Wolfgang Mixa -- Something rotten in the state of Iceland: "The production of truth" about the Icelandic banks / Vilhj�almur �Arnason -- Overthrowing the government: a case study in protest / J�on Gunnar Bernburg -- "Welcome to the revolution!" Voting in the Anarcho-surrealists / Hulda Propp�e -- Creativity and crisis / Tinna Gr�etarsd�ottir, �Asmundur �Asmundsson, and Hannes L�arusson -- Groundtruthing individual transferable quotas / Evelyn Pinkerton -- Virtual fish stink, too / James Maguire -- The resilience of rural Iceland / Margaret Willson and Birna Gunnlaugsd�ottir -- When fishing rights go up against human rights / N�iels Einarsson -- Schools in two communities weather the crash / Gu�n�y S. Gu�bj�ornsd�ottir and Sigurl�ina Dav�i�sd�ottir -- What happened to the migrant workers? / Unnur D�is Skaptad�ottir -- 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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Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland?s 2008 financial collapse was the first case in a series of meltdowns, a warning of danger in the global order. This full-scale anthropology of financialization and the economic crisis broadly discusses this momentous bubble and burst and places it in theoretical, anthropological, and global historical context through descriptions of the complex developments leading to it and the larger social and cultural implications and consequences.

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