A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern histo

Introduction : public debt, inequality and power -- The spectacle of a highly centralized public debt -- The bondholding class resurgent -- Fiscal conflict : pa

As countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they are confronted with an even more challenging debt crisis. Xavier Debrun argues in the foreword that in

How have the most influential political economists of the past three centuries theorized about sovereign borrowing and shaped its now widespread use? That impor

This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective. It demonstrates that public debt has been a defining feature in the constru