The age of deficits
Subtitle: presidents and unbalanced budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush
By: Iwan Morgan.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780700616855
Subjects: Budget deficits -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Budget deficits -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Presidents -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Political parties -- United States -- History; Finance, Public -- United States -- History -- 1933-; Fiscal policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Fiscal policy -- United States -- History -- 21st century; United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century; United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009
Description: This explores the role of presidents in the emergence of large deficits in the period from 1976 through 2008 and shows how they have all, with Bill Clinton's exception, subordinated balanced budgets to the achievements of other parts of their political agenda.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-352) and index.
Table of contents: title: Presidents and the other red peril; title: Presidents and balanced budgets : a historical perspective; title: Jimmy Carter : confronting the deficit; title: Ronald Reagan : coexisting with the deficit; title: George H.W. Bush : compromising on the deficit; title: Bill Clinton : taming the deficit; title: George W. Bush : resurrecting the deficit; title: Epilogue: Barack Obama : dealing with deficits and debt in the short term and long term; title: Appendices: Presidential fiscal profiles.