Public Debt as a Form of Public Finance : Overcoming a Category Mistake and its Vices (Paperback)

1. Monarchies, democracies, and indebtedness; 2. Political presuppositions and the theory of public finance; 3. Taxes as prices ? a useful but corruptible simile; 4. From public pricing to fiscal policy ? the Keynesian detour; 5. Ecologies, not machines ? analytical failures of Macro theories; 6. Calculation and coordination within a political economy; 7. Public debt, systemic lying, and the corruption of contract; 8. From liberal to feudal democracy ? Henry Maine reversed; 9. Liberalism and Collectivism ? an easily toxic mix.