Bucking The Deficit : Economic Policymaking In America

ISBN-13: 9780813320618 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str.

G. Calvin MacKenzie; Saranna Thornton

Opis

For years now, Americans have called for a balanced budget, debt reduction, and fiscal sanity. Yet the federal government continues to spend beyond its income, driving the level of federal debt up and public confidence down. Why is that? Why have the monsters of public financepork-barrel spending, entitlements, and the deficitremained unchecked for so long? What effects have they had on our economy and our politics? What, if anything, can be done to tame them?This concise, well-written primer of American political economy offers answers to these questions and more, all the while covering a vast and complicated intellectual terrain in an accessible and engaging way. Political scientist G. Calvin Mackenzie and economist Saranna Thornton combine forces here to clear up some of the mysteries of contemporary economic theory and practice. They take us on a sweeping tour of the economic turning points in our national history and then go on to discuss what it will take to make sound economic policy and, ultimately, good government for the twenty-first century.Everyonebut especially students of American government, public policy, economics, and businessshould have a copy of this on the shelf to help them make sense of the economic news and its political ramifications."

Spis treści

Preface -- The American Economy: Concepts and Theories -- Development of the Modern Political Economy -- Making Economic Policy -- Dilemmas of Contemporary Economic Policy -- Looking to the Future -- Discussion Questions -- About the Book and Authors

O autorze

Mackenzie, G Calvin | Thornton, Saranna