The Sixteen Trillion Dollar Mistake - How the U.S. Bungled it′s National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-11432-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Choices about budget priorities are arguably the most important made by the federal government, profoundly affecting the well-being of citizens. Bruce Jansson documents how presidents from FDR to Clinton have made ill-advised choices that wasted trillions of dollars. Going beyond charges of corruption or bureaucratic waste, the book is an eye-opening exposé revealing innumerable useless projects (military as well as civilian), unnecessary tax concessions, and the use of interest payments to cover deficit spending, among other costly mistakes. Using Office of Management and Budget projections through 2004, Jansson shows how the madness continues and how an informed electorate can put an end to it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jansson, Bruce S.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface1. Failed National Priorities from FDR to Clinton2. Roosevelt as Magician3. Roosevelt's Dilemma4. The Conservatives' Revenge5. Truman's Nightmare6. Truman's Bombshells7. Eisenhower's Ambivalence and Kennedy's Obsession8. Johnson's Policy Gluttony9. Nixon's Megalomania10. Reagan's Fantasies11. Reagan's Gordian Knot12. Bush's Myopia13. Clinton as Backpedaler and Counterpuncher14. Clinton Boxes with Reagan's Shadow15. On the Magnitude of Failed National PrioritiesNotesCollections, Oral Histories, InterviewsBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce S. Jansson is the author of Social Policy: From Theory to Political Practice, The Reluctant Welfare State, and many other books and articles on social policy and welfare. He teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.