Public Spending and Postwar Economic Policy / Sherwood M. Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Sherwood M., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1944]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the American postwar economic policy in relation to the debate between heavy public spending and keeping a balanced budget. It specifically addresses the New Deal as a means to end the 1937 recession and its, secular-stagnation doctrine, public debt, and other topics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I. Introduction

II. The Emergence of Fiscal Policy

III. Compensatory Public Spending and Secularstagnation

IV. A Critique of Secular-Stagnation Doctrine

V. The Limits to Public Debt

VI . Public Spending, 1933-1940

VII. The Lessons of New Deal Spending

VIII. Public Spending and Postwar Economic Policy

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0-231-88891-0

OCLC:

1100457372