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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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Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

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What if you were gambling and racked up a huge debt? How would you pay it off? What if a gambling syndicate employed collectors who killed in order to gather the money you owed them? What would you do if they came after you? A discharged marine suffers from prophetic dreams about a debt collector killing people. After leaving a nightclub, he soon discovers these dreams are very real. However, destroying the crime organization from the inside is hard, never mind the fact that these scum murdered his father. His only support is a woman who tried to kill him. Digging into the syndicate, they discover an ugly truth that shatters his world.

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