Fiscal policy : lessons from economic research / edited by Alan J. Auerbach. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auerbach, Alan J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiscal policy--Congresses.

Fiscal policy.

Fiscal policy--United States--Congresses.

Fiscal policy--Congresses--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 475 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction / Alan J. Auerbach

Federalism as a device for reducing the budget of the central government / John M. Quigley and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Do budget rules work / James M. Poterba

Work, welfare, and family structure: what have we learned? / Hilary Williamson Hoynes

Public policy for health care / David M. Cutler

Privatizing Social Security in the United States: why and how / Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Rethinking saving incentives / B. Douglas Bernheim

Tax policy and investment / Kevin A. Hassett and R. Glenn Hubbard

Tax policy and the activities of multinational corporations / James R. Hines Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-262-26743-8

0-585-13301-8