Rising public debt has been widespread in democratic-capitalist political economies since the 1970s, generally accompanied among other things by weak economic growth, rising unemployment, increasing inequality, growing tax resistance, and declining political participation. Following an initial...

The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has called into question. This book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspective, with law, economics and political...