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Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement

Preface

1. The Economists and Vulgar Opinion

2. The New Orthodoxy

3. The Methodology of Debt Theory

4. Concerning Future Generations

5. The Analogy: True or False?

6. Internal and External Public Loans

7. Consumption Spending, the Rate of Interest, Relative and Absolute Prices

8. A Review of Pre-Keynesian Debt Theory

9. Public Debt and Depression

10. War Borrowing

11. Public Debt and Inflation

12. When Should Government Borrow?

13. Should Public Debt Be Retired?

14. Debt Retirement and Economic Stabilization

Appendix A Suggested Conceptual Revaluation of the National Debt

The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (with Gordon Tullock)

Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice

The Demand and Supply of Public Goods

Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory

The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan

Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (with Richard E. Wagner)

The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution (with Geoffrey Brennan)

The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (with Geoffrey Brennan)

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