A Symposium on Sovereign Debt and Reputation: Introduction

This short article is an introduction to the Book Review Symposium on Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance (Harvard University Press, 2014, 331 pp.). Given that several of the symposium comments detail the basic contours of the book, I do not extensively summarize the arguments of each chapter. However, the essay briefly presents the central motivations, questions, and assertions of the project.