https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/An-Ethnography-of-Evictions-in-the-United-States https://booksandideas.net/An-Ethnography-of-Evictions-in-the-United-States 2016-06-23T07:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Society United States of America culture poverty subprimes Florence Gould Foundation <p>In the United States, tenant evictions have become a mass phenomenon. The sociologist Matthew Desmond traces the fate of eight Milwaukee families in the grips of an extraordinarily violent housing market. This outstanding study concludes with a new conceptualization of poverty.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Get-Yourself-Into-Debt https://booksandideas.net/Get-Yourself-Into-Debt 2011-10-04T15:55:24Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande Economy capitalism History United States of America subprimes crisis trust debt credit <p>The crisis currently affecting the United States is all the more serious when we consider how deep its roots go. The historian Louis Hyman shows how debt lodged itself at the heart of American capitalism during the 20<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century. More than just an economic system, it is a genuine social model that has collapsed along with subprime loans.</p> https://booksandideas.net/October-2008-the-return-of-the https://booksandideas.net/October-2008-the-return-of-the 2009-01-29T10:38:25Z text/html en Bruno Bernardi Carousel welfare state Philosophy la suite gauche subprimes crisis <p>The unfolding of the financial crisis and our attempts to keep it in check have spawned a new theme of debate: are we witnessing - to the joy of some and the horror of others - the return of the State? Bruno Bernardi wonders whether this is, in fact, an illusion preventing us from identifying the real issues emerging from these current shifts. Is this a further step towards society's absorption by the market, or a global reconfiguration of our historical and political horizons?</p>