Balanced Budgets and American Politics |
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| Author:
| Savage, James D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-2047-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1988 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $47.50 |
Book Description:
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'The ideology of a balanced federal budget has maintained a remarkable hold over American politics. No generation has been free from pitched battles over national debt. In this lively and well-written book, James D. Savage contends that the federal deficit must be understood as a primarily political, not an economic, phenomenon whose symbolism has shaped more than two hundred years of American economic policy.'--Journal of Politics
'The ideology of a balanced federal budget has maintained a remarkable hold over American politics. No generation has been free from pitched battles over national debt. In this lively and well-written book, James D. Savage contends that the federal deficit must be understood as a primarily political, not an economic, phenomenon whose symbolism has shaped more than two hundred years of American economic policy.'--Journal of Politics