TY - BOOK AU - Maloney,John TI - Debt and deficits: an historical perspective SN - 1858984793 AV - HJ8011 .D368 1998 PY - 1998///] CY - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA PB - Edward Elgar KW - Debts, Public KW - History KW - Congresses KW - Deficit financing KW - Taxation KW - Fiscal policy N1 - Papers presented at a conference held at Gresham College, in Feb. 1996; Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; List of figures and tables; The authors; Foreword; Andreas Prindl; Introduction; John Maloney; 1. The political economy of public finance in the 'long' eighteenth century; Donald Winch; 2. Gladstone and sound Victorian finance; John Maloney; 3. Reflections on Ricardian equivalence; Robert J. Barro; 4. Keynes, Buchanan and the balanced-budget doctrine; Peter Clarke; 5. Did Britain have a Keynesian revolution? Fiscal policy since 1941; Tim Congdon; 6. Debt, deficits and default; Walter Eltis; Index ER -