02950nam 2200589 a 450 991100845670332120230928222253.01-889119-62-80-585-45396-91-4833-4519-X1-4833-0169-91-322-28272-21-4833-7114-X(CKB)2670000000574900(OCoLC)1007861219(StDuBDS)EDZ0000159483(MiAaPQ)EBC1994449(Au-PeEL)EBL1994449(CaPaEBR)ebr10933391(CaONFJC)MIL659552(OCoLC)923711695(EXLCZ)99267000000057490020130912h20032003 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBalancing the federal budget eating the seed corn or trimming the herds? /Irene S. Rubin1st ed.New York Chatham Housec2003New York :Chatham House Publishers/Seven Bridges Press,c2003.©20031 online resource (xiv, 318 pages)Print version : 9781889119625 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.BudgetUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAdministrative agenciesUnited StatesFinanceHistory20th centuryGovernment spending policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryBudgetHistoryAdministrative agenciesFinanceHistoryGovernment spending policyHistory352.40973Rubin Irene143691StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9911008456703321Balancing the federal budget4396275UNINA