Loans And Legitimacy
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Author |
: Odette Lienau |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2014-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674726406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674726405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Sovereign Debt by : Odette Lienau
Conventional wisdom holds that all nations must repay debt. Regardless of the legitimacy of the regime that signs the contract, a country that fails to honor its obligations damages its reputation. Yet should today's South Africa be responsible for apartheid-era debt? Is it reasonable to tether postwar Iraq with Saddam Hussein's excesses? Rethinking Sovereign Debt is a probing analysis of how sovereign debt continuity--the rule that nations should repay loans even after a major regime change, or else expect consequences--became dominant. Odette Lienau contends that the practice is not essential for functioning capital markets, and demonstrates its reliance on absolutist ideas that have come under fire over the last century. Lienau traces debt continuity from World War I to the present, emphasizing the role of government officials, the World Bank, and private markets in shaping our existing framework. Challenging previous accounts, she argues that Soviet Russia's repudiation of Tsarist debt and Great Britain's 1923 arbitration with Costa Rica hint at the feasibility of selective debt cancellation. Rethinking Sovereign Debt calls on scholars and policymakers to recognize political choice and historical precedent in sovereign debt and reputation, in order to move beyond an impasse when a government is overthrown.
Author |
: Katherine A.S. Siegel |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813183305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813183308 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Loans and Legitimacy by : Katherine A.S. Siegel
In 1919 the Soviet government directed Ludwig Martens to open a trade bureau in New York. Before his deportation two years later, Martens had established contact with nearly one thousand American firms and conducted trade in the face of a stiff Allied embargo. His work planted the seeds for growing commercial ties between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. throughout the 1920s. Because the United States did not recognize the Soviet Union until 1933, historians have viewed the early Soviet–American relationship as an ideological stand-off. Katherine Siegel, drawing on public, private, and corporate documents as well as newly opened Soviet archives, paints a different picture. She finds that business ties flourished between 1923 and 1930, American sales to the Soviets grew twentyfold and American firms supplied Russians with more than a fourth of their imports. American businesses were only too eager to tap into huge Soviet markets. Under the Soviets' New Economic Policy and first Five Year Plan, American firms invested in the U.S.S.R. and sold technical processes, provided consulting services, built factories, and trained Soviet engineers in the U.S. Most significantly, Siegel shows, this commercial relationship encouraged policy shifts at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Thus when Franklin D. Roosevelt opened diplomatic relations with Russia, he was building on ties that had been carefully constructed over the previous fifteen years. Siegel's study makes an important contribution to a new understanding of early Soviet-American relations.
Author |
: Odette Lienau |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674725069 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674725065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Sovereign Debt by : Odette Lienau
Conventional wisdom holds that all nations must repay debt. Regardless of the legitimacy of the regime that signs the contract, a country that fails to honor its loan obligations damages its reputation, inviting still greater problems down the road. Yet difficult dilemmas arise from this assumption. Should today's South Africa be responsible for apartheid-era debt? Is it reasonable to tether postwar Iraq with Saddam Hussein's excesses? Rethinking Sovereign Debt is a probing historical analysis of how sovereign debt continuity--the rule that nations should repay loans even after a major regime change, or expect reputational consequences--became the consensus approach. Odette Lienau contends that the practice is not essential for functioning international capital markets, and demonstrates how it relies on ideas of absolutist government that have come under fire over the last century. Challenging previous accounts, Lienau incorporates a wealth of original research to argue that Soviet Russia's repudiation of Tsarist debt and Great Britain's 1923 arbitration with Costa Rica hint at the feasibility of selective debt cancellation. She traces the notion of debt continuity from the post-World War I era to the present, emphasizing the role of government officials, the World Bank, and private-market actors in shaping our existing framework. Lienau calls on scholars and policymakers to recognize political choice and historical precedent in sovereign debt and reputation, in order to move beyond an impasse when a government is overthrown.
Author |
: Katherine A. S. Siegel |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:638745268 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Loans and Legitimacy by : Katherine A. S. Siegel
Author |
: Katherine Amelia Siobhan Siegel |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813119626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813119625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Loans and Legitimacy by : Katherine Amelia Siobhan Siegel
Because the United States did not recognize the Soviet Union until 1933, historians have viewed the early Soviet American relationship as an ideological stand-off. Katherine Siegel, drawing on public, private, and corporate documents as well as newly opened Soviet archives, paints a different picture. She finds that business ties flourished between 1923 and 1930, American sales to the Soviets grew twentyfold, and American firms supplied Russians with more than a fourth of their imports. American businesses were only too eager to tap into huge Soviet markets. Along with purchases went credit from major American manufacturers and banks. Under the Soviets' New Economic Policy and first Five Year Plan, American firms invested in the U.S.S.R. and sold technical processes, provided consulting services, built factories, and trained Soviet engineers in the U.S. Most significantly, Siegel shows, this commercial relationship encouraged policy shifts at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Thus when Franklin D. Roosevelt opened diplomatic relations with Russia, he was building on ties that had been carefully constructed over the previous fifteen years. Siegel's study makes an important contribution to a new understanding of early Soviet-American relations.
Author |
: Paul Tucker |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 662 |
Release |
: 2019-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691196305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691196303 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unelected Power by : Paul Tucker
Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.
Author |
: Katherine Amelia Siobhan Siegel |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:80963486 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Loans and Legitimacy by : Katherine Amelia Siobhan Siegel
Author |
: Kitty Calavita |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 1999-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520219472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520219473 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Big Money Crime by : Kitty Calavita
An in-depth scrutiny into the American savings and loan financial crisis in the 1980s. The authors come to conclusions about the deliberate nature of this financial fraud and the leniency of the criminal justice system on these 'Gucci-clad white-collar criminals'.
Author |
: Josh Ryan-Collins |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2014-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1908506547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781908506542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where Does Money Come From? by : Josh Ryan-Collins
Based on detailed research and consultation with experts, including the Bank of England, this book reviews theoretical and historical debates on the nature of money and banking and explains the role of the central bank, the Government and the European Union. Following a sell out first edition and reprint, this second edition includes new sections on Libor and quantitative easing in the UK and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe.
Author |
: Charles R. Geisst |
Publisher |
: Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2017-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815729013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815729014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Loan Sharks by : Charles R. Geisst
Predatory lending: A problem rooted in the past that continues today. Looking for an investment return that could exceed 500 percent annually; maybe even twice that much? Private, unregulated lending to high-risk borrowers is the answer, or at least it was in the United States for much of the period from the Civil War to the onset of the early decades of the twentieth century. Newspapers called the practice “loan sharking” because lenders employed the same ruthlessness as the great predators in the ocean. Slowly state and federal governments adopted laws and regulations curtailing the practice, but organized crime continued to operate much of the business. In the end, lending to high-margin investors contributed directly to the Wall Street crash of 1929. Loan Sharks is the first history of predatory lending in the United States. It traces the origins of modern consumer lending to such older practices as salary buying and hidden interest charges. Yet, as Geisst shows, no-holds barred loan sharking is not a thing of the past. Many current lending practices employed today by credit card companies, payday lenders, and providers of consumer loans would have been easily recognizable at the end of the nineteenth century. Geisst demonstrates the still prevalent custom of lenders charging high interest rates, especially to risky borrowers, despite attempts to control the practice by individual states. Usury and loan sharking have not disappeared a century and a half after the predatory practices first raised public concern.