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Volatile states : institutions, policy, and the performance of American state economies / W. Mark Crain.
LIBRA HJ275 .C69 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crain, W. Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finance, Public--United States--States.
- Finance, Public.
- United States.
- Taxation--United States--States.
- Taxation.
- U.S. states--Economic policy.
- U.S. states.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- New research reevaluates the disparities in economic growth and living standards among American states.
- Contents:
- Champions of the state growth league
- The end of state income convergence
- Volatile states: estimates of the risk-return trade-off
- Demise of the state sales tax
- Economic consequences of state tax policy
- Reliability of revenues from alternative tax instruments
- State budgets outgrow state incomes
- Fiscal uncertainty: the enemy of efficient budgeting
- Political ideology and other drivers of state budget priorities
- Fresh perspectives on familiar problems.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472113038
- OCLC:
- 50291054
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