Bucking the Deficit: Economic Policymaking in America

ISBN-13: 9780367314736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

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 finance?pork-barrel spending, entitlements, and the deficit?remained unchecked f

Spis treści

Preface -- 1 The American Economy: Concepts and Theories --2 Development of the Modern Political Economy -- 3 Making Economic Policy -- 4 Dilemmas of Contemporary Economic Policy -- 5 Looking to the Future

O autorze

G. Calvin Mackenzie holds the endowed chair of Distinguished Presidential Professor of American Government and is chair of the Department of Government at Colby College. Saranna Thornton is assistant professor of economics at Colby College.