Part I: The Matter of Fairness in Developing Country Debt: Excessive Indebtedness as an Ethical Problem.

The Editors 1.

The Players and the Game of Sovereign Debt.

Barry Herman 9.

Part II: Identifying Responsiblity for Sovereign Debt: Fairness in Sovereign Debt.

Christian Barry and Lydia Tomitova 41.

International Debt: The Constructive Implications of Some Moral Mathematics.

Sanjay G. Reddy 81.

Should they Honor the promises of Their Parents' Leaders?.

Axel Gosseries 99.

Risks of Lending and Liability of Lenders.

Kunibert Raffer 127.

National Responsibility and the Just Distribution of Debt Relief.

Alexander W. Cappelen, Rune Jansen Hagen, Bertil Tungodden 151.

Part III: Perspectives from Theology.

Judeo-Christian Tradition on Debt: Political, Not Just Ethical.

Ton Veercamp 167.

Making the Case for Jubilee: The Catholic Church and the Poor-Country Debt Movement.

Elizabeth A. Donnelly 189.

Argentina, the Church, and the Debt.

Thomas J. Trebat 135-60.

Part IV: International Policy Reforms.

Achieving Democracy.

Thomas Pogge 249.

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

Jonathan Shafter 275.

Reviving Troubled Economics.

Jack Boorman 297.

The Constructive Role of Private Creditors.

Arturo C. Porzecanski 307.

Resolving International Debt Crises Fairly.

Ann Pettifor 321.

Contributors 331.

Index 335.

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