Public Debt as a Form of Public Finance

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Author(s): Richard E. Wagner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2019

Language: English
Pages: 70
Tags: Austrian Economics

Cover......Page 1
Title page......Page 3
Copyright page......Page 4
Public Debt as a Form of Public Finance: Overcoming a Category Mistake and its Vices......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
1 Monarchies, Democracies, and Indebtedness......Page 9
2 Political Presuppositions and the Theory of Public Finance......Page 15
3 Taxes as Prices: A Useful but Corruptible Simile......Page 22
4 From Public Pricing to Fiscal Policy: The Keynesian Detour......Page 26
5 Ecologies, Not Machines: Analytical Failures of Macro Theories......Page 30
6 Calculation and Coordination within a Political Economy......Page 35
7 Public Debt, Systemic Lying, and the Corruption of Contract......Page 42
8 From Liberal to Feudal Democracy: Henry Maine Reversed......Page 52
9 Liberalism and Collectivism: An Easily Toxic Mix......Page 55
References......Page 59
Acknowledgments......Page 67