Public Debt as a Form of Public Finance

Name: Public Debt as a Form of Public Finance
Author: Richard Wagner

Overcoming a Category Mistake and its Vices

Paperback Engels 2019 9781108735896

25,38

In winkelwagen

Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen

Samenvatting

Economists commit a category mistake when they treat democratic governments as indebted. Monarchs can be indebted, as can individuals. In contrast, democracies can't truly be indebted. They are financial intermediaries that form a bridge between what are often willing borrowers and forced lenders. The language of public debt is an ideological language that promotes politically expressed desires and is not a scientific language that clarifies the practice of public finance. Economists have gone astray by assuming that a government is just another person whose impulses toward prudent action will restrict recourse to public debt and induce rational political action.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781108735896

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:75

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Verschijningsdatum:30-5-2019

Hoofdrubriek:Economie

Serie:Elements in Austrian

Lezersrecensies

Wees de eerste die een lezersrecensie schrijft!

Schrijf een recensie

Uw cijfer

?

Log in om te stemmen

Inhoudsopgave

1. Monarchies, democracies, and indebtedness; 2. Political presuppositions and the theory of public finance; 3. Taxes as prices – a useful but corruptible simile; 4. From public pricing to fiscal policy – the Keynesian detour; 5. Ecologies, not machines – analytical failures of Macro theories; 6. Calculation and coordination within a political economy; 7. Public debt, systemic lying, and the corruption of contract; 8. From liberal to feudal democracy – Henry Maine reversed; 9. Liberalism and Collectivism – an easily toxic mix.