A History (and Future) of the Budget Process in the United States Budget by Fire /

• Main Author: Winfree, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Welfare economics.; Public administration.; Finance-History.; Finance, Public.; Economic History.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; Public Administration.; Financial History.; Public Finance.

The United States has one of the most unique budgeting processes of any modern government. The "powers of the purse" are enumerated under the Constitution, but they were hotly debated by the nation's founding fathers. However, the lack of a legal guide for exactly how to delegate the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Debt Is the Price of Liberty
• 3. Bounded by War
• 4. Building a Visible Government
• 5. The End of Balanced Budgets
• 6. In Pursuit of Full Employment
• 7. A New Era of Congressional Budgeting
• 8. Breaking up the Budget Process.