Balanced budgets & American politics /
Savage, James D.,1951-
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press,
c1988.
Includes bibliography and index.
Balanced budgets and symbolic politics -- The economics of deficit spending -- Colonial deficits, constitutional restrictions, and the rise of Hamiltonian government -- Creating a symbol : balanced budgets and the concept of corruption -- Distorting a symbol : Republican Party government, 1861-1932 -- Transforming a symbol : Democratic Party government, 1933-1980 -- Coming to grips with a symbol : Ronald Reagan and unbalanced budgets -- Appendixes. State debts and the development of off-budget spending, 1860-1984 ; The Reagan budget battles, FY 1982-1985 ; Federal receipts, expenditures, surpluses, deficits, and debt, 1789-1984.
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Budget deficits
Deficit financing