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The very rapid growth of the internal national debt observed in most industrialised countries since the beginning of the 1970s poses questions regarding the risks of such a situation and leads one to wonder whether the advantages that are associated with the persistent public sector deficits that lie at the root of this growing indebtedness really exist.
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Strauss-Kahn, D. (1988). Public Sector Deficits and the Growth of the National Debt. In: Cavanna, H. (eds) Public Sector Deficits in OECD Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08952-9_6
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