Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-283) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : budget deficits and national decline -- Fiscal deficits : definitions and consequences -- Federal spending since 1950 -- United States Fiscal Policy : an international perspective -- Taxes and incomes in the United States -- Financing the deficit : the international dimension -- Fiscal deficits, public goods, and the real economy -- The future according to present trends -- Decline revisited -- Rebalancing America.
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