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Asmaa El-Ganainy Rui Esteves Barry Eichengreen Kris J In Defense of P (Hardback)

In these ways, the capacity to issue debt has been integral to state building and state survival. In Defense of Public Debt redresses the balance. They deploy a comprehensive database to identify the factors behind rising public debts and the circumstances under which high debts are successfully stabilized and brought down.