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Joys and Pains of Public Debt

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Buiter, W.H. (2005). Joys and Pains of Public Debt. In: De Gijsel, P., Schenk, H. (eds) Multidisciplinary Economics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26259-8_19

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