The Cost of Our National Government a Study in Political Pathology / Henry Jones Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Henry Jones, author.

Series:

Columbia University Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance--United States.

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1910]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Contains the substance of lectures delivered at Columbia University during 1909 which focused on budgetary issues such as, the growth of expenditure, creating a national budget, constitutional agencies of budget control, and political conditions of budgeting.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I .THE GROWTH OF EXPENDITURE

II. MAKING THE NATIONAL BUDGET

III.CONSTITUTIONAL AGENCIES OF BUDGET CONTROL

IV. THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES

V. SOME COMPARISONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES

VI. EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

VII. POLITICAL CONDITIONS AND TENDENCIES

APPENDIX A ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURES

APPENDIX B BUDGET PROCEDURE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPENDIX C POST-OFFICE APPROPRIATIONS

APPENDIX D EXECUTIVE ESTIMATES AND CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATIONS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89282-9

OCLC:

1100452418