States, debt, and power : 'saints' and 'sinners' in European history and integration /
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Contextualizing Debt: History, Morality, and the Triple Structural Dimension
- 2.The Nature of Sovereign Creditworthiness: Hierarchy, Sovereignty, and Responsibility
- 3.Moralizing Credit: Bad Debt, Good Debt, and the Troubled Conscience
- pt. I Debt and Political Rule in European History
- 4.The Evolution of Public Debt
- 5.Financial Repression, Debasement, and the Historic Arc of Default
- 6.Theological Traces and Social Contexts
- 7.The Dynamics of Public Debt in Historical Perspective: The Limitations of Formal Economic Reasoning
- pt. II Law, Culture, and Statecraft
- 8.Law, Public Debt, and the Paradoxes of Power
- 9.Economic Cultures, Ideologies of Debt, and State Virtue
- 10.Space, Time, and Statecraft: Saints. Fallen Angels, False Prophets, Redeemers, and Sinners
- pt. III State Liability and Territorial Control
- 11.States and Financial Markets: The Imbalance of Power
- Contents note continued: 12.Professional Consensus, Political Silence, and Sovereign Creditworthiness
- 13.The Dynamics of External Imbalances and Debt
- 14.Which Truth? The Power of Numeric Indicators and Probabilistic Reasoning about Public Debt
- 15.Public Debt Dynamics: Political Will and State Capacity
- 16.Public Debt and Multilevel Statehood: Sub-National Fiscal Governance, Structural Imbalances, and `Stand-Alone' Fiscal Capacity
- pt. IV Sovereign Creditworthiness and European Integration
- 17.Still the `Old' Europe? Historical Legacies and Long-Term Political Challenges
- 18.The Achilles Heel of Post-War European Integration: Endogenous Preference Formation and the Boundaries of Creditor-State Power