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MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Argentina, the Church, and the Debt
The Argentine debt crisis of 2001–2002 and its aftermath are examined in the light of the moral framework of Catholic social teaching on the debt problems ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Making the Case for Jubilee: The Catholic Church and the Poor-Country Debt Movement
Since the late 1970s, an increasingly global coalition of churches and nongovernmental organizations has pressed for reduction if not outright cancellation of the foreign debt ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
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 ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
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 ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
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 ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
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 ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
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.
MAR 7, 2007 • Journal
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 ...
MAR 7, 2007 • Podcast
Global Human Rights Leadership: Who Will Fill the Void Left by the United States?
With Washington's reputation as a leader on human rights gravely damaged by abuses committed in its five-year-old "global war on terror," who will fill the ...
MAR 1, 2007 • Podcast
American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
Over six million Muslims of different backgrounds live in the United States, and for the most part, says Paul Barrett, they are highly assimilated. But ...