Search Results

Spring 2007 (21.1) Feature

Risks of Lending and Liability to Others

This essay analyzes why risk and liability are necessary mechanisms of well-functioning markets, and discusses how risk can be handled. In the U.S., inappropriate ...

Spring 2007 (21.1) Feature

National Responsibility and the Just Distribution of Debt Relief

The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative is the largest multilateral effort aimed at providing debt relief. this essay, we address the question of whether ...

Spring 2007 (21.1) Feature

The Due Diligence Model: A New Approach to the Problem of Odious Debts

Odious debts are debts incurred by a government without either popular consent or a legitimate public purpose. There is a debate within academic circles as ...

Spring 2007 (21.1) Feature

International Debt: The Constructive Implications of Some Moral Mathematics

Modified rules for the accumulation and discharge of international sovereign debt can codify the moral and legal basis for existing ad hoc deviations and present ...

Spring 2007 (21.1) Feature

Introduction: The Players and the Game of Sovereign Debt

This essay characterizes the main actors and how they operate during a buildup of government foreign debt.

Summer 2007 (21.2) Review

Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism edited by Michael Walzer

This volume of collected essays by Michael Walzer seeks to bring a more concentrated focus on specifically Jewish outlooks regarding three key themes: "Political Order ...