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1 online resource (520 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Broad Theories; 1.1. Fiscal Functions: An Overview; 1.2. The Role of Government in a Free Society; 1.3. The Fiscal Crisis of the Siale; 2. Regulation of the Private Sector; 2.1. Up and Down with Ecology: The ""Issue-Attention Cycle""; 2.2. The Theory of Economic Regulation; 2.3. The Consumer's Stake in Deregulation: The Benefit/Cost Test; 2.4. Two Cheers for Government Regulation; Recent Developments in Business Regulation; 3. Fiscal and Monetary Policy; 3.1. The Politics of Fiscal and Monetary Policy |
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3A. Budgetary Policy3A.1. A Theory of the Budgetary Process; 3A.2. Policy and Priority in the Budgetary Process; 3A.3. Making Sense of the Federal Budget the Old-Fashioned Way: Incrementally; 3A.4. Bureaucracy: Servant or Master? Lessons from America; 3B. Tax Policy; 38.1. Understanding Tax Policy; 38.2. Taxes, Revenues, and the ""Laffer Curve""; 38.3. From Redistributive to Hegemonic Logic: The Transformation of American Tax Politics, 1894-1963; 3C. The Politics of Deficits; 3C.1. Democracy and Keynesian Constitutions: Political Biases and Economic Consequences |
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3C.2. A Clear and Present Danger: The Politicizalion of the Constitution3D. Monetary Policy; 3D.1. The Political Structure of the Federal Reserve System; 3D.2. In Defense of the Federal Reserve; 3D.3. External Pressure and the Operations of the Fed; Recent Changes in Monetary and Fiscal Policy; 4. Politics and Economic Outcomes; 4.1. The REAL Economy; 4.2. Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance; 4.3. The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis; 4.4. The Electoral-Economic Cycle |
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4.5. Elections and the Economy in the 1980s: Short-and Long-Tenn Effects4.6. A Model of the Political Economy of the United States; 4.7. Recent Trends in Tax: Progressivity; Recent Trends in Economic Outcomes; About the Editor |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315482040 |
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1315482045 |
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