politics of bad ideas
Subtitle: the great tax cut delusion and the decline of good government in America
By: Bryan D. Jones, Walter Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Walter.
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780205605385
Subjects: Fiscal policy -- United States.; Taxation -- United States.; Budget deficits -- United States.
Notes: "Contains a new Introduction as part of the Frontmatter and an Epilogue at the end"--Publisher.
Table of contents: value: The politics of bad ideas; value: The tax cut theories; value: Evaluating the claims; value: Budgetary politics and the spending mind-set; value: Institutions, rules, and politics; value: Big government republicanism costs money; value: Politics, economics, and tax theories; value: The impacts of recent fiscal policies on America; value: The rise and decline of reality-based policymaking in the federal government, 1945-2006; value: The role of institutions; value: Why do bad ideas persist?; value: Escaping the dead weight of bad ideas.