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Dimitriu, Cristian
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dc.date.available
2019-04-23T17:59:52Z
dc.date.issued
2017-11
dc.identifier.citation
Dimitriu, Cristian; Agency Law and Odious Debts; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Ethics and Global Politics; 10; 1; 11-2017; 77-97
dc.identifier.issn
1654-6369
dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/11336/74819
dc.description.abstract
Because of the way that the international lending system works, poor nations have been forced to repay sovereign debts without having a moral obligation to do so. Suppose a corrupt public official borrows money from an international agency, or from private investors, and later on embezzles this money, or uses it to oppress the population. Suppose, further, that the lender is aware of the potential of this situation and still lends. Typically, the international community considers that successor governments have the obligation to repay the funds and the interests associated to them. In fact, this is what they usually end up doing. Public officials are all aware that if they do not honour sovereign debts, they will face all kinds of negative consequences, including exclusion from future markets, loss of reputation and legal sanctions. Owing to this mechanism, entire generations have been burdened with debts fraudulently incurred in their name by governments in the past. These kinds of debts have been known in the legal literature as ‘odious’. In this article, I discuss the conditions defining the bindingness of a debt. I suggest that they can be made explicit by looking at the rules under which the lending system works at the domestic level, and by then extending these rules to the international domain. I argue that, because of their plausibility, these are the rules that should govern international lending from now on. I also discuss the feasibility of extending these rules globally, and consider potential objections to my proposal.
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application/pdf
dc.language.iso
eng
dc.publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
dc.subject
Global Justice
dc.subject
International Lending
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Odious Debts
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World Poverty
dc.subject.classification
Estudios Religiosos
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dc.subject.classification
Filosofía, Ética y Religión
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dc.subject.classification
HUMANIDADES
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dc.title
Agency Law and Odious Debts
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.date.updated
2019-04-23T17:14:44Z
dc.journal.volume
10
dc.journal.number
1
dc.journal.pagination
77-97
dc.journal.pais
Reino Unido
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dc.journal.ciudad
Londres
dc.description.fil
Fil: Dimitriu, Cristian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Sadaf; Argentina. Goethe Universitat Frankfurt; Alemania. Free University Berlin; Alemania
dc.journal.title
Ethics and Global Politics
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16544951.2017.1389220
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2017.1389220
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