TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter discusses the evolution of German views on public debt 1850–1920, referring to three strands of secondary literature: (1) German retrospectives on public finance, (2) the historical literature with a public choice perspective, and (3) contributions to public/constitutional law, mainly referring to Lorenz von Stein. The skeptic view of public debt endorsed by authors of the second half of the period is shown to be related to politico-economic issues of state agency combined with new state functions, rather than to the rejection of Dietzel’s Proto-Keynesian macroeconomic reasoning.
VL  - 38A
SN  - 978-1-83867-699-5, 978-1-83867-700-8/0743-4154
DO  - 10.1108/S0743-41542020000038A009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542020000038A009
AU  - Sturn Richard
ED  - Luca Fiorito
ED  - Scott Scheall
ED  - Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
PY  - 2020
Y1  - 2020/01/01
TI  - Public Credit, Capital, and State Agency: Fiscal Responsibility in German-Language Finanzwissenschaft
T2  - Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Public Finance in the History of Economic Thought
T3  - Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 97
EP  - 121
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -