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UNINA9910795934403321 |
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Cottarelli Carlo |
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What we owe : truths, myths, and lies about public debt / / Carlo Cottarelli |
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Washington, DC : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2017 |
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1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations |
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- part I. The public debt problem -- 1. What is public debt? -- 2. The surge in public debt -- 3. How high public debt can cause a financial crisis -- 4. How high public debt can reduce economic growth -- 5. Public debt, moral imperatives, and politics -- 6. A pause to recap -- part II. The shortcuts -- 7. Printing money -- 8. First case study : should European countries leave the euro zone? -- 9. Financial repression -- 10. Default -- 11. Second case study : the Greek crisis -- 12. Debt mutualization -- 13. Privatization -- part III. The main road -- 14. Economic growth -- 15. A bit of austerity -- 16. Institutional fiscal constraints -- Conclusion : the unbearable lightness of public debt. |
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The euro crisis, Japan's sluggish economy, and partisan disagreements in the United States about the role of government all have at least one thing in common: worries about high levels of public debt. Nearly everyone agrees that public debt in many advanced economies is too high to be sustainable and must be addressed. There is little agreement, however, about when and how that addressing should be done--or even, in many cases, just how serious the debt problem is. As the former director of the International Monetary Fund's Fiscal Affairs Department, Carlo Cottarelli has helped countries across the globe confront their public finance woes. He also had direct experience in advising his own country, Italy, about its chronic fiscal ailments. In this straightforward, plain-language book, Cottarelli explains how and why |
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excessive public debt can harm economic growth and can lead to crises such as those experienced recently in Italy and several other European countries. But Cottarelli also has some good news: reducing public debt often can be done without trauma and through moderate changes in spending habits that contribute to economic growth. His book focuses on positive remedies that countries can adopt to deal with their public debt, analyzing both the benefits and potential downsides to each approach, as well as suggesting which remedies might be preferable in particular situations. Too often, public debate about public debt is burdened by lies and myths. This book not only explains the basic facts about public debt but also aims to bring truth and reasoned nonpartisan analysis to the debate. |
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UNINA9911019954603321 |
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Kilns and firing : a collection of papers presented at various meetings throughout the U.S. : a collection of papers presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting, April 22-26, 1990, Dallas, TX / / Gregory Powhida, Manager of Continuing Education, the American Ceramic Society ; George Fryburg, President, Ceramic Manufacturing Council |
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Westerville, Ohio, : American Ceramic Society, c1990 |
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9786612314896 |
9781282314894 |
1282314890 |
9780470313107 |
0470313102 |
9780470315750 |
047031575X |
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1 online resource (167 p.) |
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Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings |
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FryburgGeorge A |
PowhidaGregory |
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Ceramics |
Ceramic materials |
Kilns |
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At head of title: Ceramic Manufacturing Council. |
Issued as: Ceramic engineering & science proceedings, v. 11, no. 11/12, 1990. |
"Inaugural sessions of the Ceramic Manufacturing Council ... A one-day session by the CMC and a one-day joint session with the Material and Equipment Division"--Foreword. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Ceramic Manufacturing council; Table of Contents; Reduction to Commercial Practice; Efficiency or EPA Compliance-What is the Effect on the Ceramic Industry; Pressure Slip Casting; The Ceramic Industry in the Regulatory Arena; The New, Improved US. Process Patent; Presentation and Panel Discussions on Size Reduction: Vibrating Mills, Stirred Media Mills, Fluid Energy Mills, and Rumbling Mills-A Panel Session; Stirred Ball Mills; Latest Design Considerations for Spray Drying Advanced Ceramics; Quality Assurance a t an Alumina Calcination Facility: A Continuously Growing Task |
Evaluation of an Atmosphere-Controlled Belt Furnace for the Sintering of Nitrogen CeramicsFurnace Design Considerations for Processing Advanced Ceramic Materials; High-Temperature Hydrogen Sintering of a Ceramic; Dynamic Analysis of TemperatureStress Fields During Pressureless Sintering and Hot-Pressing; Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Furnace Design and Manufacture; Fluid-Bed Furnaces for Ceramic Powder Processing; Radiant Methods of Temperature Measurement; Measurement and Control of Furnace Atmospheres for Ceramic Processing; Advanced Magnetic Power Control for Resistive Loads |
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Furnace InstallationInvestigation on the Structure and Control System of the Pre-Drying Zone of a Ceramic Roller Hearth Kiln; Bringing Existing Kilns to State-of - the- Art Technology; An Overview of Continuous Electric Kilns; Low Mass Kiln Cars; The Role of Pyrometric Cones and Temperature in the Firing Process; Heating Element Materials for the Ceramics Industry; Author Index; Subject Index |
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This volume is part of the Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceeding (CESP) series. This series contains a collection of papers dealing with issues in both traditional ceramics (i.e., glass, whitewares, refractories, and porcelain enamel) and advanced ceramics. Topics covered in the area of advanced ceramic include bioceramics, nanomaterials, composites, solid oxide fuel cells, mechanical properties and structural design, advanced ceramic coatings, ceramic armor, porous ceramics, and more. |
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