You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective. It demonstrates that public debt has been a defining feature in the construction of modern states, a main driver in the history of capitalism, and a potent geopolitical force. From revolutionary crisis to empire and the rise and fall of a post-war world order, the problem of debt has never been the sole purview of closed economic circles. This book offers a key to understanding the centrality of public debt today by revealing that political problems of public debt have and will continue to need a political response. Today’s tendency to consider public debt as a source of fragility or economic inefficiency ...
As Europe proceeds towards economic and monetary union, fiscal convergence and the prospect of a common money are at the centre of discussion. This volume from the Centre for Economic Policy Research brings together theoretical, applied and historical research on the management of public debt and its implications for financial stability.
How have the most influential political economists of the past three centuries theorized about sovereign borrowing and shaped its now widespread use? That important question receives a comprehensive answer in this original work, featuring careful textual analysis and illuminating exhibits of public debt empirics since 1700. Beyond its value as a definitive, authoritative history of thought on public debt, this book rehabilitates and reintroduces a realist perspective into a contemporary debate now heavily dominated by pessimists and optimists alike.
None
“Love lasteth long as the money endureth.” “The money paid, the workdelayed.” This original anthology is rich with hundreds of quotes on currency,greed, the wealthy, and poverty, drawn from the Bible, proverbs, andthe observations of Confucius, Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde,Edith Wharton, Henry Ford, W. C. Fields, Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, OprahWinfrey, and others.Dover Original
Store math materials for unique learning activities inside attractive gift bags and watch students dig into them with gusto.