Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget PolicyFiscal 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. |
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Questions for Chapter 1 | 36 |
2 Budget Gimmicks | 39 |
Questions for Chapter 2 | 64 |
3 Transparency in the US Budget Process | 68 |
Questions for Chapter 3 | 99 |
4 European Experiences with Fiscal Rules | 103 |
Questions for Chapter 4 | 127 |
9 The Calculus of Constraint | 271 |
Questions for Chapter 9 | 288 |
10 When Does the Ballot Box Limit the Budget? | 290 |
Questions for Chapter 10 | 320 |
Bibliography | 322 |
328 | 328 |
PART FOUR | 329 |
11 Dysfunctional or Optimal Institutions? | 331 |
Bibliography | 130 |
PART TWO | 139 |
5 Economic Perspectives on Federal Deficits and Debt | 141 |
Questions for Chapter 5 | 182 |
6 | 185 |
Questions for Chapter 6 | 218 |
7 | 221 |
Questions for Chapter 7 | 240 |
Bibliography | 242 |
PART THREE | 249 |
8 | 251 |
Questions for Chapter 8 | 270 |
Table 111 Number of governments by level and type 1942 | 335 |
Table 119 Regression estimates of state and local debt 1870 | 353 |
Questions for Chapter 11 | 364 |
12 FederalState Budgetary Interactions | 366 |
Questions for Chapter 12 | 393 |
Bibliography | 396 |
PART FIVE | 399 |
13 New Property Entrenchment and the Fiscal | 401 |
Questions for Chapter 13 | 416 |
14 Courts Constitutions and Public Finance | 418 |
Questions for Chapter 14 | 444 |
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Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy Elizabeth Garrett,Elizabeth A. Graddy,Howell E. Jackson Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2008 |
Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy Elizabeth Garrett,Elizabeth A. Graddy,Howell E. Jackson Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2009 |
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