Format:
xliv, 564 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
21 cm
ISBN:
9783030487935
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in the history of finance
Content:
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 misses the fact that, since the eighteenth century, public debts and capital markets have on many occasions been used by states to enforce their sovereignty and build their institutions, especially in times of war. It is nonetheless striking to observe that certain solutions that were used in the past to smooth out public debt crises (inflation, default, cancellation, or capital controls) were left out of the political framing of the recent crisis, therefore revealing how the balance of power between bondholders, taxpayers, pensioners, and wage-earners has evolved over the past 40 years. Today, as the Covid-19 pandemic opens up a dramatic new crisis, reconnecting the history of capitalism and that of democracy seems one of the most urgent intellectual and political tasks of our time.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030487942
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030487966
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe A world of public debts Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 ISBN 9783030487942
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe A world of public debts Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 ISBN 9783030487942
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Öffentliche Schulden
;
Öffentlicher Haushalt
;
Schuldenkrise
;
Schuldendienst
;
Kapitalismus
;
Finanzpolitik
;
Weltpolitik
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-48794-2
