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The great deficit scares : the federal budget, trade, and social security / Robert Eisner.
LIBRA HJ2051 .E369 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisner, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Budget deficits--United States.
- Budget deficits.
- United States.
- Balance of trade--United States.
- Balance of trade.
- Social security--United States--Finance.
- Social security.
- Finance.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 75 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Century Foundation Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Author Robert Eisner maintains that the economic dragons the American nation should be attempting to slay do not entail mythically measured budget or current account deficits. The real economic troubles that America faces are those of poverty, income inequality, and a failure to invest in human capital and public infrastructure.
- Notes:
- "A Twentieth Century Fund report."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-69) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0870784110
- OCLC:
- 37527657
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