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A free nation deep in debt : the financial roots of democracy

The author explores the connection between public debt and democracy beginning in Biblical times through the present looking at why governments borrow, why did bond markets develop, and why only in Europe?
eBook, English, ©2003
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, ©2003
History
1 online resource (ix, 564 pages : illustrations)
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Introduction: The Financial Roots of Democracy
1. Tribes and Empires
2. Citizen Creditors
3. Sovereign Debt
4. Resistance to the Hegemon
5. The Chimera
6. The Dilemma
7. Revolution
8. Bourgeois Century
9. Nations at Arms
Epilogue: The End of the Affair
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