Balanced Budgets and American Politics: Its Origin and Nature

By James D. Savage

Book Overview

Winner of the Harold D. Lasswell Award from the American Political Science Association A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1988-89 "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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801496217
• ISBN13: 9780801496219
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"