Putting Trust in the US Budget
Subtitle: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Theories of Institutional Design)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521777483
Subjects: Political economy; Public finance; United States; Politics - Current Events; Infrastructure (Economics); Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Social security; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - National; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Pension trusts--United States; Political Science / General; General; Finance; Pension trusts
First sentence: This chapter draws on recent work in transaction cost theory and historical institutionalism to provide a framework for analyzing the causes and consequences of trust fund financing.