Cover -- A Nation in Debt: How Can We Pay the Bills? -- Debts, Deficits -- Why Worry? -- A Framework for Deliberation -- Option One: Agree to Make Sacrifices Now -- Reform Social Security and Medicare -- Raise Revenue -- Cut Federal Spending Everywhere -- What We Could Do -- Option Two:...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- 1. An Overview of Government Debt Management -- Recent Moves Toward Improved Debt Management -- What Is Government Debt Management? -- How Does Government Debt Management Differ from Other Dimensions of...

"In The Politics of Public Debt Daniel Bin analyzes how fiscal and monetary policies and the administration of public debt related to class, labor, and democracy during the period of neoliberal financialization in Brazil. Sustained by state action, the politico-economic context allowed the...

In line with the capital structure irrelevance principle of Modigliani and Miller (1958), this article shows that when international capital allocation choices are determined by well-informed, deep-pocketed global financial investors, there are no net gains a government of a highly...