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Public Debt, Inequality, and Power : The Making of a Modern Debt State /
"Who are the dominant owners of US public debt? Is it widely held, or concentrated in the hands of a few? Does ownership of public debt give these bondholders power over our government? What do we make of the fact that foreign-owned debt has ballooned to nearly 50 percent today? Until now, we h...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : public debt, inequality and power
- The spectacle of a highly centralized public debt
- The bondholding class resurgent
- Fiscal conflict : past and present
- Bonding domestic and foreign owners
- Who rules the debt state?
- Conclusion : informing democratic debate
- Appendix : accounting for the public debt.