Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism

Synopsis

It Is Commonplace To Say That Criminals Pay Their Debt To Society By Spending Time In Prison, But What Is A Debt To Society? How Is Crime Understood As A Debt? How Has Time Become The Equivalent For Crime? And How Does Criminal Debt Relate To The Kind Of Debt Held By Consumers And University Students? In Debt To Society, Miranda Joseph Explores Modes Of Accounting As They Are Used To Create, Sustain, Or Transform Social Relations. Envisioning Accounting Broadly To Include Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting Of Costs And Performance, And The Calculation Of Debts To Society Owed By Criminals, Joseph Argues That Accounting Technologies Have A Powerful Effect On Social Dynamics By Attributing Credits And Debts. Accounting For Debt: Toward A Methodology Of Critical Abstraction -- Accounting For Justice: Beyond Liberal Calculations Of Debt And Crime -- Accounting For Time: The Entrepreneurial Subject In Crisis -- Accounting For Gender: Norms And Pathologies Of Personal Finance -- Accounting For Interdisciplinarity: Contesting Value In The Academy. Miranda Joseph. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.