Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement

by James M. Buchanan

Book Overview

Public Principles of Public Debt is one of James M. Buchanan's most important and influential books. The radical idea he conceived was that our reliance on public debt has amassed a sort of orthodoxy that is commonly--and needlessly--assumed by taxpayers, by politicians, and by economists themselves.

Buchanan dismisses the nearly universal belief (which continues to this day) that the burden of debt is borne by the current...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865972168
• ISBN13: 9780865972162
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5