Public Debt Sustainability - International Perspectives

This book examines the issue of debt sustainability from an international perspective, with reference to European countries, emerging nations, and the United States.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Organizing Congress for Budget Reforms by Kurt COUCHMAN
Chapter 2:Debt Fatigue and the Climacteric in U.S. Economic Growthby John MERRIFIELD and Barry POULSON
Chapter 3: Preparing for the Next Crisis: Lessons from the Successful Swedish Fiscal Framework by Lars JONUNG and Fredrik NG ANDERSSON
Chapter 4: The Swiss Federal Debt Brake and its Unbudgeted Surpluses by Vera Z. Eichenauer and Jan-Egbert Sturm
Chapter 5: The German Debt Brake: Success Factors and Challenges by Lars P. Feld and Wolf H. Reuter
Chapter 6: A Money Doctor's Reflections on Currency Reforms and Hard Budget Constraints: A Stroll Down Memory Lane by Steve H. Hanke
Chapter 7: Fiscal Rules and Public Debt: An Emerging Market Perspective by Pablo Guidotti
Chapter 8: Populist Economic Thought: the Legacy of Juan Domingo Perón by Carlos Newland and Emilio OCampo
Chapter 9: Monetary Policy and the Worsening U.S. Debt Crisis by Norbert J. Michel
Chapter 10: The Federal Reserve and the Debt Crisis by Tom Saving
Chapter 11: The High Costs of Fiscal and Monetary Anomie: Argentina since 1945 by Emilio OCampo
Chapter 12: The Failure to Establish Effective Rules for Financing U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs by Charles Blahous
Chapter 13: Fiscal Rules for Social Security and Medicare: Would Accrual Accounting Help? By James C. Capretta

About the author

Edited by Barry W. Poulson; John Merrifield and Steve H. Hanke - Contributions by Fredrik Ng Andersson; Charles Paul Blahous; James C. Capretta; Kurt Couchman; Xavier Debrun; Vera Z. Eichenauer; Lars P. Feld; Pablo Guidotti; Steve H. Hanke; Lars Jonung; J

Product details

• Authors: Barry W. Merrifield Poulson
• Assisted by: Steve H. Hanke (Editor), Hanke Steve H. (Editor), John Merrifield (Editor), Barry W. Poulson (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781666902587
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-258-7
• No. of pages: 388
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, International Relations, International Economics, Public finance, Public finance and taxation, Finance and the finance industry