Debt Development And Democracy

Author : Jeffry A. Frieden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691186764

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Debt, Development, and Democracy by Jeffry A. Frieden Pdf

In the 1970s and 1980s the countries of Latin America dealt with their similar debt problems in very different ways--ranging from militantly market-oriented approaches to massive state intervention in their economies--while their political systems headed toward either democracy or authoritarianism. Applying the tools of modern political economy to a developing-country context, Jeffry Frieden analyzes the different patterns of national economic and political behavior that arose in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela. This book will be useful to those interested in comparative politics, international studies, development studies, and political economy more generally. "Jeffry Frieden weaves together a powerful theoretical framework with comparative case studies of the region's five largest debtor states. The result is the most insightful analysis to date of how the interplay between politics and economics in post-war Latin America set the stage for the dramatic events of the 1980s."--Carol Wise, Center for Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate School

Author : James Macdonald
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691126326

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A Free Nation Deep in Debt by James Macdonald Pdf

For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In A Free Nation Deep in Debt, James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this political transformation occurred. The pressures of war finance led ancient states to store up treasure; and treasure accumulation invariably favored autocratic states. But when the art of public borrowing was developed by the city-states of medieval Italy as a democratic alternative to the treasure chest, the balance of power tipped. From that point on, the pressures of war favored states with the greatest public creditworthiness; and the most creditworthy states were invariably those in which the people who provided the money also controlled the government. Democracy had found a secret weapon and the era of the citizen creditor was born. Macdonald unfolds this tale in a sweeping history that starts in biblical times, passes via medieval Italy to the wars and revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ends with the great bond drives that financed the two world wars.

Author : Giuseppe Eusepi,Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788117937

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Debt Default and Democracy by Giuseppe Eusepi,Richard E. Wagner Pdf

The original chapters in this book connect the microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches to public debt. Through their thought-provoking views, leading scholars offer insights into the incentives that individuals and governments may have in resorting to public debt, thereby promoting a clearer understanding of its economic consequences.

Author : Jonas B. Bunte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190866181

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Raise the Debt by Jonas B. Bunte Pdf

Credit is the lifeblood of capitalism and development. Brazil, Russia, India, and China-also called BRICs-have become important creditors to developing countries. However, how will their loans affect economic development and democracy in recipient countries? We need to understand why governments accept Chinese over Western loan offers before we can predict their likely consequences. In Raise the Debt, Jonas B. Bunte systematically explains how governments choose among competing loan offers. Using statistical analyses and extensive interview data, he shows that the strings attached to loans vary across creditors. Consequently, one domestic interest group may benefit from Chinese credit but not U.S. loans, while the opposite is the case for other groups. Bunte provides evidence that governments cater to whichever domestic interest group is politically dominant when deciding between competing loan offers. Combining a comparative politics approach with international political economy methods, Raise the Debt shows how a deeper understanding of governments' borrowing decisions is critical for gaining insights into how these loans could impact growth and democracy on a global scale.

Author : Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857934604

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Deficits, Debt, and Democracy by Richard E. Wagner Pdf

This timely book reveals that the budget deficits and accumulating debts that plague modern democracies reflect a clash between two rationalities of governance: one of private property and one of common property. The clashing of these rationalities at various places in society creates forms of societal tectonics that play out through budgeting. The book demonstrates that while this clash is an inherent feature of democratic political economy, it can nonetheless be limited through embracing once again a constitution of liberty. Not all commons settings have tragic outcomes, of course, but tragic outcomes loom large in democratic processes because they entail conflict between two very different forms of substantive rationality; the political and market rationalities. These are both orders that contain interactions among participants, but the institutional frameworks that govern those interactions differ, generating democratic budgetary tragedies. Those tragedies, moreover, are inherent in the conflict between the different rationalities and so cannot be eliminated. They can, as this book argues, be reduced by restoring a constitution of liberty in place of the constitution of control that has taken shape throughout the west over the past century. Economists interested in public finance, public policy and political economy along with scholars of political science, public administration, law and political philosophy will find this book intriguing.

Author : R. Hannesson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137532008

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Debt, Democracy and the Welfare State by R. Hannesson Pdf

Why is it that government debt in the developed world has risen to world war proportions in a time of peace? This can largely be attributed to governments maintaining welfare expenditures beyond what tax revenues allow. But will these governments refrain from doing what is necessary for economic growth for fear of losing their electorate?

Author : Giuseppe Eusepi,Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Debts, Public
ISBN : 1786438038

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Public Debt by Giuseppe Eusepi,Richard E. Wagner Pdf

Over the past decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. This book provides an alternative orientation that explains why concepts of public debt that are relevant for authoritarian regimes are not relevant for democratic regimes. Using methodological individualism and micro-economics, this book overcomes flaws inherent in the standard macro approach, according to which governments manipulate public debt to promote systemic stability. This unique analysis is grounded in the writings of Antonio de Viti de Marco, injecting current analytical contributions and formulations into the framework to offer a forthright insight into public debt and political economy.

Author : Fantu Cheru
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106009348563

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The Silent Revolution in Africa by Fantu Cheru Pdf

Author : Ben Turok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015025189153

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Alternative Development Strategies for Africa: Debt and democracy by Ben Turok Pdf

Author : Jeffry A Frieden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429978524

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Modern Political Economy And Latin America by Jeffry A Frieden Pdf

This is a reader that applies the newest debates in political economy to the analysis of Latin America in a way that is thematically and theoretically cohesive.. Modern Political Economy and Latin America consists of carefully selected, edited readings in Latin American political economy. The editors, Jeffry Frieden and Manuel Pastor, Jr., include an introductory chapter, and a concluding article as well as brief introductions to all sections. These inclusions will make explicit the theoretical underpinnings of each article, and will highlight their respective contributions to the ongoing debates in Latin America. } Modern Political Economy and Latin America consists of carefully selected, edited readings in Latin American political economy. The editors, Jeffry Frieden and Manuel Pastor, Jr., include an introductory chapter, and a concluding article as well as brief introductions to all sections. These inclusions will make explicit the theoretical underpinnings of each article, and will highlight their respective contributions to the ongoing debates in Latin America.Latin American economies are undergoing profound transformations. And, in the wake of a decade-long debt crisis, the statist models of the past are giving way to a reliance on the market even as authoritarian rule seems to have ebbed in favor of new or reborn democratic institutions. As a result, the policy framework guiding economic and political development is likely to be fundamentally different. The analysis of Latin America needs a strong dose of modern political economy--one that can bring the area studies field up to date with the recent developments on the theoretical end of the economics and political science professions. This book helps fill that need. }

Author : James M. Buchanan,Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129755448

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Public Debt in a Democratic Society by James M. Buchanan,Richard E. Wagner Pdf

Author : Jacques Gélinas
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856495868

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Freedom from Debt by Jacques Gélinas Pdf

This work deals with two issues: the emancipation of the Third World from the debt system and the reappropriation of development by civil society through financial self-reliance.

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429718182

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Latin America At The Crossroads by Howard J. Wiarda Pdf

A provocative and controversial look at Latin America as it stands at a crossroads, this book analyzes the complex economic and social roots of the debt crisis and evaluates the prospects for new development strategies for the 1990s. Dr. Wiarda begins by placing the regional economic crisis in the larger context of technological change, political upheaval, and the international economy. He then explores new choices and realities in inter-American relations and the role international lending agencies can take to assist Latin America in meeting the challenge of the next decade. The author suggests that "smokescreens and mirrors" have obscured the true nature of the crisis and, as a result, have skewed the policy debate.

Author : S. Janaka Biyanwila
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781837970247

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Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka by S. Janaka Biyanwila Pdf

Fusing the regional with the global, this book widens its perspective from a distinct, national moment to an international interdependency with the power to ripple across every corner of the globe.

Author : Mary Mellor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Debts, Public
ISBN : 1783717173

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Debt Or Democracy by Mary Mellor Pdf