On the Sustainability Area as a Simplifying Didactic Device

Soren Harck

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2000, vol. 24, issue 4, 505-09

Abstract: Recently, the sustainability area of public finance has been launched as a simplifying screening device for the analysis of fiscal sustainability. In this comment, it is argued that the novel notion of the sustainability area (reflecting, in turn, a simple notion of public debt sustainability) does not, by itself, have any bearing on the sustainability of public finances: being positioned within the sustainability area cannot serve as a reasonable criterion of fiscal sustainability. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 2000
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