Debt default and democracy

The original chapters in this book connect the microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches to public debt. Through their thought-provoking views, leading scholars offer insights into the incentives that individuals and governments may have in resorting to public debt, thereby promoting a clearer unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eusepi, Giuseppe (Editor), Wagner, Richard E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA Edward Elgar Pub., Inc. 2018, 2018
Series:New thinking in political economy
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Preface
  • Part I: Public debt and individual rationality
  • 1. De Viti de Marco vs. Ricardo on public debt: self-extinction or default? / Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner
  • 2. Governing the market for sovereign bailouts / Karsten Mause
  • 3. Political obligations: is debt special? / Geoffrey Brennan
  • 4. Debt default and the limits of the contractual imagination: Pareto and Mosca meet Buchanan / Richard E. Wagner
  • Part II: Macro consequences and implications of public debt
  • 5. Political economy of government solvency: the institutional framework for stability and sustainability / Andrea Rieck and Ludger Schuknecht
  • 6. On some recent proposals of public debt restructuring in the Eurozone / Ernesto Longobardi and Antonio Pedone
  • 7. Economic governance in the Euro area: balancing risk reduction and risk sharing / Fabrizio Balassone, Sara Cecchetti, Martina Cecioni, Marika Cioffi, Wanda Cornacchia, Flavia Corneli and Gabriele Semeraro
  • 8. Adjustments in the balance sheets - is it normal, this "new normal"? / Liviu Voinea, Alexie Alupoaiei, Florin Dragu and Florian Neagu
  • Index