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Can government go bankrupt?

Title
Can government go bankrupt? / Richard Rose & Guy Peters.
Author
Rose, Richard, 1933-
Publication
New York : Basic Books, ©1978.

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Additional Authors
Peters, B. Guy
Description
xv, 283 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Finance, Public
  • Debts, Public
  • Bankruptcy
  • Bankruptcy
  • 83.52 public sector economics
  • Debts, Public
  • Finance, Public
  • Finanzpolitik
  • Staatsbankrott
  • Öffentliche Schulden
  • Kritik
  • Wirtschaftspolitik
  • Wohlfahrtsstaat
  • Economische politiek
  • Großbritannien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. The end of an illusion : What is the problem? ; Bankruptcy is not inevitable ; A challenge to everyone -- 1. Undermining political authority : From market choice to political choice ; On trying to consume more than we produce ; The prospect of political bankruptcy ; What can be done? -- 2. Treble affluences: the three faces of growth : Slow but steady: the growth of the national pie ; Neither steady nor slow: the growth of public policy ; Real growth and relative decline: the trajectory of take-home pay ; Squeezing affluence -- 3. Everybody benefits : What the money buys ; Spreading the benefits ; Giving away money isn't as easy as it sounds -- 4. Everybody pays : How the money is raised ; Spreading the burden ; The dues of citizenship -- 5. The pressures for more : The bias in the electoral cycle ; Inertia commitments: the great moving force ; Consumers, producers, and suppliers united for more -- 6. Economics without constraint : One-eyed Keynesianism ; The center fails to hold ; Making money unreal ; Happy forecasts -- 7. Running out of pie: the limits of political economy : Depressing growth: the record of the 1970s ; How close to political bankruptcy? ; Big trouble now ; Trouble ahead -- 8. The costs of buying time : Mr. Micawber's policy ; Money illusion and disillusion ; Getting organized ; International incredibility -- 9. Forced choice : Backing into bankruptcy ; Making public policy sacrosanct ; Protecting take-home pay ; How to put the brakes on -- 10. First things first, or money isn't everything : Rights, benefits, and wants ; The priorities of ordinary citizens.
ISBN
  • 0465008348
  • 9780465008346
LCCN
78054493
OCLC
  • ocm04136113
  • 4136113
  • SCSB-108341
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library