Debt jubilee

A debt jubilee is a clearance of debt from public records across a wide sector or a nation. Such a jubilee was proposed as a solution to debt incurred or anticipated during the 2020 coronavirus recession.[1][2] The American economist Michael Hudson was a proponent of a debt jubilee, writing in a Washington Post op-ed that it was an alternative to a depression.[3][4] Similarly, anthropologist David Graeber pointed to kings' historical use of debt jubilees during regime changes to suggest that a debt jubilee would have been an appropriate response to the 2008 financial crisis.[5]

See also

• Jubilee (biblical)
• Write-down

References

1. Gordon, Cameron (30 April 2013). "The debt jubilee: an Old Testament solution to a modern financial crisis?". The Conversation.
2. Wilson, Simon (28 March 2020). "Debt jubilee: will our debts be written off?". MoneyWeek.
3. Brancaccio, David; Shin, Daniel (2 April 2020). "To avoid a depression, forgive debts, one economist says". Marketplace.
4. Hudson, Michael (21 March 2020). "A debt jubilee is the only way to avoid a depression". Washington Post.
5. Graeber, David (2011). Debt : the first 5,000 years. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House. ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2. This was also the goal of the Rolling Jubilee campaign at the time.

Further reading

• Goodhart, Charles; Hudson, Michael (11 June 2018). "Some ways to introduce a modern debt Jubilee". VoxEU.
• Herrine, Luke (1 April 2020). "The Law and Political Economy of a Student Debt Jubilee". Buffalo Law Review. 68 (2): 281–411. SSRN 3442234.