When states go broke
Subtitle: the origins, context, and solutions for the American states in fiscal crisis
By: [edited by] Peter Conti-Brown, David Skeel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781107023178
Subjects: States; Public Finance; State government bankruptcy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the perennial crisis / Peter Conti-Brown; title: The problem: the states in fiscal crisis; title: Fiscal constitutions and fiscal crises : a history / Isabel Rodriguez-Tejedo, John Wallis; title: Obligations without the power to fund them : the origins, consequences, and possible solution to the fiscal crisis of the states / Damon Silvers; title: Public pension pressures in the United States / Olivia Mitchell; title: Structural challenges in state budgeting / Josh Barro; title: What states can learn from municipal insolvency / Clayton Gillette; title: Market discipline and U.S. federalism / Jonathan Rodden; title: American states and sovereign debt restructuring : lessons and cautionary tales / Adam Feibelman; title: State bankruptcy from the ground up / David Skeel; title: Fiscal federalism and the limits of bankruptcy / Adam Levitin; title: Extending bankruptcy law to states : is it constitutional? / Michael McConnell; title: Bankruptcy for the states and by the states / George Triantis; title: Labor and the states' fiscal problems: not the problem but perhaps part of the solution / Catherine Fisk, Brian Olney; title: Epilogue / David Skeel.