Bankructwo państwa - fakt czy mit?

Abstract

The aim of this work is to investigate whether states are really going bankrupt. The author uses the analysis and criticism of scientific literature, descriptive and statistical methods to answer the question put in the title. For the purposes of the article, the main hypothesis H1 - State may go bankrupt; and the two auxiliary hypotheses: H1a - State may go bankrupt in the strict sense; H1b - State may go bankrupt in the broad sense; were formulated. In order to verify them, the author examines the definitions of bankruptcies, reviews the literary covering issue of the financial problems of states, and identifies the key factors that affect the state considered to be bankrupt (or being threatened by bankruptcy). In the final section, examples of the bankruptcy of the countries described in the scientific literature are cited. On this basis, the final conclusions are formulated and the veracity of the hypotheses is done.(original abstract)