Why Budgets Matter : : Budget Policy and American Politics; Revised and Updated Edition / / Dennis S. Ippolito.
When the first edition of Why Budgets Matter was published in 2003, the federal budget had fallen back into deficit. At the time, fairly modest changes in taxes and spending would have ensured that deficits and debt would remain at tolerable levels. Instead, the disconnect between taxes and spending...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Revised and Updated |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1. Perspectives on Budget Policy
- 2. The “Small Government” Era (1789–1860)
- 3. Budgeting for Government Growth (1860–1915)
- 4. The Transition to Modern Government (1915–1940)
- 5. War and Defense Budgets (1940–1970)
- 6. Social Welfare Budgets and Deficits (1970–1990)
- 7. Reconciliation and Balanced Budgets (1990–2001)
- 8. Destabilizing Budget Policy (2001–)
- Selected Bibliography
- Index