AWW21 The Meaning of Money - Royce Kurmelovs and Rick Morton

Royce Kurmelovs’ finances were shredded when, uninsured, he hit
another car. Rick Morton grew up in poverty, a household that
struggled to afford birthday gifts and in which an unexpected
bill could mean a choice between food and electricity. Royce’s
Just Money: Misadventures in the Great Australian Debt Trap and
Rick’s On Money are illuminating explorations of the debt
industry and its shakedown of the poor and the desperate, and the
strange moral meaning we – one of the most indebted nations in
the world – ascribe to both the having and owing of money.


Chaired by David Sly