Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. David Conn (1978), 'Economic Theory and Comparative Economic Systems: A Partial Literature Survey', Journal of Comparative Economics, 2(4), December, 355-81 2. Avner Ben-Ner, John Michael Montias and Egon Neuberger (1993), 'Basic Issues in...

Contents: 1. Macroeconomics, fiscal policy, and public debt: conflating myth and reality -- 2. Political economy and the supply of macro guidance -- 3. Engines, ecologies, and economic systems -- 4. Budgeting and public debt within a system of cooperative democracy -- 5. Public debt within...

Contents: Preface -- Part I: Public debt and individual rationality -- 1. De Viti de Marco vs. Ricardo on public debt: self-extinction or default? / Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner -- 2. Governing the market for sovereign bailouts / Karsten Mause -- 3. Political obligations: is debt...