Decolonizing debt: new fields for institutions – Response to Mitchell Dean, Andrea Mura and Valentina Napolitano

The question of debt has therefore become a specific problem for some European nations, which were considered responsible for poor management of the state. In this sense, it was a guilt that was easily attributable and equally easy to position in the context of what could be done to make amends, in the sense of damages that had been caused, a broken rule or a breached agreement, which, however, could be compensated for through making sacrifices. The point for me then was to understand what fueled the supposedly linear logic behind austerity policies. More than an economic issue in the technical sense, the debt problem emerged as a powerful political problem.