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How Much Debt Is Too Much?

Skidelsky, Robert, (2016), “How Much Debt Is Too Much?”, Social Europe, 29 Ιανουαρίου.

Is there a “safe” debt/income ratio for households or debt/GDP ratio for governments? In both cases, the answer is yes. And in both cases, it is impossible to say exactly what that ratio is. Nonetheless, this has become the most urgent macroeconomic question of the moment, owing not just to spiraling household and government debt since 2000, but also – and more important – to the excess concern that government debt is now eliciting.

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