Uncertain Legacies: Federal Budget Policy from Roosevelt Through Reagan

By Dennis S. Ippolito

An analysis of modern U.S.budget policy. It presents a balanced appraisal of the causes and cures of deficits than found in current ideological and partisan diagnoses. By analyzing the evolution of spending and tax policy during the period of modern budget policy - from the New Deal through the Regan administration - it provides a necessary perspective on the policy conflicts that have frustrated a long series of budget-control efforts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813912873
• ISBN13: 9780813912875
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"