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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
