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Why Not Default?: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt

Why Not Default?: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt

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  • Jerome E Roos
  • Princeton University Press
  • Hardcover
  • 9780691180106
  • 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.4 inches
  • 1.85 pounds
  • Business & Economics > Economics - General
  • English
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How creditors came to wield unprecedented power over heavily indebted countries--and the dangers this poses to democracy

The European debt crisis has rekindled long-standing debates about the power of finance and the fraught relationship between capitalism and democracy in a globalized world. Why Not Default? unravels a striking puzzle at the heart of these debates--why, despite frequent crises and the immense costs of repayment, do so many heavily indebted countries continue to service their international debts?

In this compelling and incisive book, Jerome Roos provides a sweeping investigation of the political economy of sovereign debt and international crisis management. He takes readers from the rise of public borrowing in the Italian city-states to the gunboat diplomacy of the imperialist era and the wave of sovereign defaults during the Great Depression. He vividly describes the debt crises of developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s and sheds new light on the recent turmoil inside the Eurozone--including the dramatic capitulation of Greece's short-lived anti-austerity government to its European creditors in 2015.

Drawing on in-depth case studies of contemporary debt crises in Mexico, Argentina, and Greece, Why Not Default? paints a disconcerting picture of the ascendancy of global finance. This important book shows how the profound transformation of the capitalist world economy over the past four decades has endowed private and official creditors with unprecedented structural power over heavily indebted borrowers, enabling them to impose painful austerity measures and enforce uninterrupted debt service during times of crisis--with devastating social consequences and far-reaching implications for democracy.

Why Not Default?: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt

Author Bio

Jerome Roos is a Fellow in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics, and author of Why Not Default? The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt (Princeton University Press).


Born in Utrecht, the Netherlands in 1985, Jerome studied politics and history at the Universities of Utrecht and Bologna, and political economy at Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. Prior to returning to the LSE as a Fellow in International Political Economy in 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology of the University of Cambridge. 

His first book, Why Not Default? The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt, was published by Princeton University Press in 2019 and received the Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award of the American Sociological Association in 2020. Jerome is currently writing a history of global crises for Jonathan Cape (UK) and Knopf (US), set to be translated into nearly twenty languages.

 

Source: https://jeromeroos.com/

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