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Fiscal challenges : an interdisciplinary approach to budget policy / edited by Elizabeth Garrett, Elizabeth A. Graddy, Howell E. Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Budget--United States.
- Budget.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to explore the problems of budget policy. The authors, including top economists, political scientists, historians, psychologists, and legal scholars, together provide a unique, multidisciplinary introduction to the subject. In addition to in-depth analysis of congressional budget procedures and the economics of federal deficits and debt, Fiscal Challenges explores important recent developments in budget policy at the state level and in the European Union. The goal of the volume is to offer readers wide-ranging perspectives on the many different academic disciplines and perspectives that bear on the evaluation of budgetary procedures and their reform.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Part I The Law and Politics of Fiscal Policy; Part II Understanding Federal Deficits and Public Debt; Part III Budgeting and Fiscal Constraints at the State Level; Part IV Intergovernmental Aspects of Budget Policy; Part V Judicial Powers and Budget Policy; Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-449) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611243555
- 9781107182950
- 1107182956
- 9781281243553
- 1281243558
- 9780511378133
- 0511378130
- 9780511377266
- 0511377266
- 9780511376320
- 0511376324
- 9780511374784
- 051137478X
- 9780511511462
- 0511511469
- 9780511379024
- 0511379021
- OCLC:
- 437197110
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