Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and Postwar America

by Michael Veseth

Book Overview

Like the United States today, Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain were the richest, most dynamic economic systems of their times. Yet each succumbed to a fiscal crisis brought on by public debt and taxation and eventually fell into long-term economic decline. Now, public debt and taxation dominate the America policy agenda. Must the United States follow the same dismal pattern of fiscal crisis and economic decline? Mountains of Debt argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064208
• ISBN13: 9780195064209
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"