Balanced Budgets and American Politics

By James D. Savage

Book Overview

'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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801420474
• ISBN13: 9780801420474
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.8"