| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 771 pages) |
| Contents |
Contextualizing Debt: History, Morality, and the Triple Structural Dimension -- The Nature of Sovereign Creditworthiness: Hierarchy, Sovereignty, and Responsibility -- Moralizing Credit: Bad Debt, Good Debt, and the Troubled Conscience -- Debt and Political Rule in European History. The Evolution of Public Debt ; Financial Repression, Debasement, and the Historic Arc of Default ; Theological Traces and Social Contexts ; The Dynamics of Public Debt in Historical Perspective: The Limitations of Formal Economic Reasoning -- Law, Culture, and Statecraft. Law, Public Debt, and the Paradoxes of Power ; Economic Cultures, Ideologies of Debt, and State Virtue ; Space, Time, and Statecraft: Saints. Fallen Angels, False Prophets, Redeemers, and Sinners -- State Liability and Territorial Control. States and Financial Markets: The Imbalance of Power ; Professional Consensus, Political Silence, and Sovereign Creditworthiness ; The Dynamics of External Imbalances and Debt ; Which Truth? The Power of Numeric Indicators and Probabilistic Reasoning about Public Debt ; Public Debt Dynamics: Political Will and State Capacity ; Public Debt and Multilevel Statehood: Sub-National Fiscal Governance, Structural Imbalances, and 'Stand-Alone' Fiscal Capacity -- Sovereign Creditworthiness and European Integration. Still the 'Old' Europe? Historical Legacies and Long-Term Political Challenges ; The Achilles Heel of Post-War European Integration: Endogenous Preference Formation and the Boundaries of Creditor-State Power |
| Summary |
"This book argues for the importance of situating our contextually influenced thinking about European states and debt within a commitment to historically informed and critical analysis. It teases out certain broad historical patterns. The book also examines the inescapably difficult and contentious judgements about 'bad' and 'good' debt; about what constitutes sustainable debt; and about distributive justice at times of sovereign debt crisis. These judgements offer insight into the nature of power and the contingent nature of sovereign creditworthiness."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-701) and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (Oxford Scholarship, viewed October 30, 2014) |
| Subject |
Debts, Public -- Europe -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance.
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Debts, Public
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Economic history
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Kreditwürdigkeit
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Staat
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Öffentliche Schulden
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Statsskuld -- historia.
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Ekonomisk historia.
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Europäische Integration.
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Europapolitik.
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Öffentliche Schulden.
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Finanzpolitik.
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Geschichte.
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EU-Staaten.
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Europa.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045687
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Europe -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045668
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| Subject |
Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191782558 |
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0191782556 |
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9780191023477 |
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0191023477 |
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