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These essays tackle the vexing problem of the federal budget-how and why it has grown so large, why most "deficit-reduction" measures are either shams or predestined to fail, and why understanding budget issues is so difficult.

Table of Contents
1. Why study microbudgeting Allen Schick 2. The dispersion of spending authority and federal budget deficits John F. Cogan 3. The uses and abuses of budget baselines Timothy J. Muris 4. Changes in discretionary domestic spending during the Regan years John F. Cogan and Timothy J. Muris 5. The study of microbudgeting Allen Schick Appendixes Notes Bibliograpyy Index.

The Budget Puzzle

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 May 1994
      ISBN-13 9780804720915
      978-0804720915
      ISBN-10 0804720916

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      These essays tackle the vexing problem of the federal budget-how and why it has grown so large, why most "deficit-reduction" measures are either shams or predestined to fail, and why understanding budget issues is so difficult.

      Table of Contents
      1. Why study microbudgeting Allen Schick 2. The dispersion of spending authority and federal budget deficits John F. Cogan 3. The uses and abuses of budget baselines Timothy J. Muris 4. Changes in discretionary domestic spending during the Regan years John F. Cogan and Timothy J. Muris 5. The study of microbudgeting Allen Schick Appendixes Notes Bibliograpyy Index.

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