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Feb 5 2018

James M. Buchanan

Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement

By James M. Buchanan

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  1. Foreword
  2. Ch. 1, The Economists and Vulgar Opinion
  3. Ch. 2, The New Orthodoxy
  4. Ch. 3, The Methodology of Debt Theory
  5. Ch. 4, Concerning Future Generations
  6. Ch. 5, The Analogy: True or False
  7. Ch. 6, Internal and External Public Loans
  8. Ch. 7, Consumption Spending, the Rate of Interest, Relative and Absolute Prices
  9. Ch. 8, A Review of Pre-Keynesian Debt Theory
  10. Ch. 9, Public Debt and Depression
  11. Ch. 10, War Borrowing
  12. Ch. 11, Public Debt and Inflation
  13. Ch. 12, When Should Government Borrow
  14. Ch. 13, Should Public Debt Be Retired
  15. Ch. 14, Debt Retirement and Economic Stabilization
  16. Appendix, A Suggested Conceptual Revaluation of the National Debt
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