- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
- |
Who Owes What, and To Whom?
Public Debt, Ricardian Equivalence, and Governmental Form
Originally published in Review of Austrian Economics
In this paper the author accepts the Ricardian argument that debt is just taxation by another name, both as an analytical point of departure and as a condition of satisfactory modeling.
In this paper the author accepts the Ricardian argument that debt is just taxation by another name, both as an analytical point of departure and as a condition of satisfactory modeling. This study also explains why the theory of public debt must be applied differently in democratic political settings than in the authoritarian setting that provides the effective backdrop for most of the postwar literature.
Read the article at Mises.org.
To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.