Sovereign debt and default
Governments have defaulted for eight centuries and will again; the literature is now data-driven as well as narrative.
10 books · 1 people behind it
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- Lords of FinanceLiaquat Ahamed, 2009
- Adults in the RoomYanis Varoufakis, 2017
- This Time Is DifferentCarmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009
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Books 10
Liaquat Ahamed · 2009 · War debts, reparations and the interwar sovereign crisis.
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff · 2009 · Eight centuries of financial folly; the reference dataset on default.
David Graeber · 2011 · Anthropological history of debt, credit and jubilee.
Barry Eichengreen · 1992 · How the gold standard constrained sovereigns into default and devaluation.
Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm · 2010 · Crises as the norm rather than the exception.
Barry Eichengreen · 2015 · The Depression and the euro crisis compared.
Yanis Varoufakis · 2017 · Insider account of the Greek default negotiations.
Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, Kris James Mitchener · 2021 · The long history of state borrowing and when it is sustainable.
Yanis Varoufakis · 2016 · The design flaws in European monetary union that force austerity.
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, Jean-Pierre Landau · 2016 · Why the eurozone crisis was a conflict of national economic doctrines.