Marc Allen Eisner

Deficits, Debt, and American Politics

Paper Shackles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this groundbreaking new book, author Marc Allen Eisner, who has devoted most of his scholarly career to studying the evolution of the US political economy, explores the significant changes in the fiscal conditions of the United States during the postwar period, embedding the discussion in a broader historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781032497587
• ISBN-10: 1032497580
• Artikelnr.: 67399907

Autorenporträt

Marc Allen Eisner is the Henry Merritt Wriston Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Government at Wesleyan University. He is author of Regulatory Politics in an Age of Polarization and Drift (Routledge, 2017) and The American Political Economy (Routledge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: As Far as the Eyes Can See Part I 2. Spending: The Growing
Dominance of Mandatory Programs 3. Taxation: Building the Revenue
Constraint 4. The Fiscal Gap: Why Deficits and the Debt Matter Part II 5.
The Great Deleveraging: Growth and Debt in The Wake of The War 6. The Great
Inflection: Stagflation and the Death of a Consensus 7. The Great Reversal:
Growing Debt and the Quest for Fiscal Control 8. Budgeting in Hard Times:
Polarization, Gridlock, and Crisis 9. Populism and Pandemic: The Road to
Record Debt 10. Conclusion: The Politics of Paper Shackles