Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Navigating Austerity 1
5. Section I. The Circuit of State Debt
6. Chapter 1. Unpredictable Circulations 31
7. Section II. The New Public Good
8. Chapter 2. Nationalist Melancholia and the Limits of Austerity Public-sector Unionism 57
9. Chapter 3. Family Capital, State Pedigree and the Limits of Austerity Public Goods 79
10. Section III. Governing Speculation
11. Chapter 4. Making a River of Gold: Speculation, Friendship and Entrepreneurial Society 105
12. Section IV. Contradictions in Time
13. Chapter 5. Ajeet’s Accident: Timespaces of Global Trade and Ethical Fixes in Circulation 129
14. Chapter 6. Uncertain Futures and Eternal Returns: Timespaces of Production in an Informalized Shipyard 153
15. Section V. Beyond Austerity
16. Conclusion 1. Toward a New Social Calculus 177
17. Conclusion 2. Sovereign Debt, Equality and Redistribution 187
18. Notes 213
19. References 217
20. Index 241