Rethinking Sovereign Debt : : Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance / / Odette Lienau.
Conventional wisdom holds that all nations must repay debt. Regardless of the legitimacy of the regime that signs the contract, a country that fails to honor its obligations damages its reputation. Yet should today's South Africa be responsible for apartheid-era debt? Is it reasonable to tether...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Open Questions in Sovereign Debt
- 2 Theoretical Underpinnings of Modern Finance
- 3 Costly Talk? Reinterpreting the Soviet Repudiation
- 4 Costa Rica, Public Benefit, and the Rule of Law
- 5 Public and Private Capital in Mid-Century Repayment Norms
- 6 Continuity and Consolidation in the Return of Private Finance
- 7 Legitimacy and Debt at the Turn of the Century
- 8 Politics and Prospects
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index