Anzeige
Erschienen in:
2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Rising Tide of Debt
verfasst von : Rögnvaldur Hannesson
Erschienen in: Debt, Democracy and the Welfare State: Are Modern Democracies Living on Borrowed Time and Money?
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.
Wählen Sie Textabschnitte aus um mit Künstlicher Intelligenz passenden Patente zu finden. powered by
Markieren Sie Textabschnitte, um KI-gestützt weitere passende Inhalte zu finden. powered by
In this chapter, the development ofgovernment debt in the traditional OECD member states since the Second World War is traced. Some countries were saddled with a large debt as a legacy of the war, but their debt as percent of GDP gradually fell until the mid-1970s. After the energy crisis of 1973 the debt began to rise in most countries. In many countries the debt has continued to rise ever since, almost without interruption, and in some countries it has reached world war proportions. Some countries have managed to reverse the debt accumulation, all of them relatively small.