Should We Abolish Household Debt?

Financial Recovery from Covid 19 Presented by EIS at King’s College London

This limited podcast series is presented by the EIS at King’s College London, examines innovative ideas that can bring financial recovery from Covid19 – concentrating households’ financial stability and offering debt relief for those suffering Covid19 induced hardship. Featuring the latest research from the Department of European and International Studies (EIS) at King’s.

In this episode, we explore the findings from Dr. Johnna Montgomerie’s recently published book ‘Should We Abolish Household Debt?” (2019, Polity Press).

Research:

Department of European & International Studies, EIS.

‘Opening the black-box of the household’ project: 

Rebuilding Macroeconomics Institutions Hub:

Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network Grant #: ES/R00787X/1

The Book:

Should We Abolish Household Debt? Polity Press.

Contributors and affiliations: 

Dr. Johnna Montgomerie, Reader in International Political Economy at King’s College London and Principal Investigator of ‘Opening-up the black box of the household’.

Dr. Ryan Davey, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Cardiff University 

Dr. Mareike Beck, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London

Dr. James Wood, Teaching Associate in Political Economy and part of the Fellowship at Trinity Hall at Cambridge University.

With contributions from:

Professor Gary Dymski, Professor of Applied Economics at the Leeds University Business School.