Growing Public
Subtitle: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521821742
Subjects: Development economics; Economic history; Government spending policy; Case studies; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Transfer payments; History; Development - Economic Development; Economics - Macroeconomics; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Income distribution
First sentence: Over the next one hundred years, there will be waves of intense debate over using taxes for social programs.