165 x 212mm, 40 pages, Risograph printing, Wire-o bound, Softcover, 2025

Through definitions, personal debt stories and co-created printmaking, Elastic Money: A Lexicon of Debt maps the vocabulary used by local women in Bootle to talk about debt and money, from the emotional to the practical: financial jargon, slang, idioms, hyper-local colloquialisms and everyday words, acknowledging local people as experts-by-experience. These community definitions make up the Lexicon alongside five personal stories about debt. Elastic Money: A Lexicon of Debt captures a creative and discursive process by The Alternative School of Economics produced by Rule of Threes and Sefton Libraries as part of At The Library in Bootle.

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