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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008456703321

Autore

Rubin Irene

Titolo

Balancing the federal budget : eating the seed corn or trimming the herds? / / Irene S. Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Chatham House, c2003

New York : , : Chatham House Publishers/Seven Bridges Press, , c2003

©2003

ISBN

1-889119-62-8

0-585-45396-9

1-4833-4519-X

1-4833-0169-9

1-322-28272-2

1-4833-7114-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages)

Disciplina

352.40973

Soggetti

Budget - United States - History - 20th century

Administrative agencies - United States - Finance - History - 20th century

Government spending policy - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 - 1981-98: Balancing the Budget: What Have We Learned? -- Chapter 2 - What Happened and What Was Learned -- Part One - Eating the Seed Corn? -- Chapter 3 - Information Agencies: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of the Census -- Chapter 4 - Budget Offices -- Chapter 5 - General Accounting Office -- Part Two - Trimming the Herds? -- Chapter 6 - Department of Agriculture -- Chapter 7 - Department of Commerce -- Chapter 8 - Department of Housing and Urban Development -- Chapter 9 - Office of Personnel Management -- Chapter 10 - Eating the Seed Corn and Trimming the Herds -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

In this timely book Irene Rubin focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the U.S. federal budget in 1998. With



characteristic insight and a lively narrative, Rubin describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure.