"Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors

There is a broad consensus that India's fiscal situation worsened over the 1990s due to a sharp rise in the revenue deficit, which in turn has raised interest rates, crowded out private investment and hindered growth. This article critiques this consensus view. It shows, using Domar arithmetic,...

The European response to the financial cum fiscal crisis in the Eurozone is leading to a democratic crisis of the state. It has exposed a tension between the national and the supranational in a multi-level polity whilst opening up new political cleavages between the core and periphery of Europe....