Kalecki explained debt resolution by means of a fable about monetary circulation between mutually indebted individuals. This chapter generalizes the processes of debt payment in that fable to show how interest and debt payments depend on the financial circulation of money, rather than profits or...

This paper analyzes the political economy of government debt when elected politicians decide about the distribution of public funds between a clean and a polluting public good. When provision of the polluting good creates a stock of climate externalities, strategic incentives for the incumbent...