The Politics of American Economic Policy Making

by Peretz,Paul

• ISBN13: 9780873324076
• ISBN10: 0873324072
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1987-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Introduction

Broad Theories

Introduction

Fiscal Functions: An Overview

The Role of Government in a Free Society

The Fiscal Crisis of the State

Regulation of the Private Sector

Introduction

Up and Down with Ecology: The Issue-Attention Cycle

The Theory of Economic Regulation

The Consumer's Stake in Deregulation

Two Cheers for Government Regulation

Developments in Business Regulation

Economic Policy Processes

Introduction

The Politics of Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Budgetary Processes A

Theory of the Budgetary Process

Policy and Priority in the Budgetary Process

Making Sense of the Federal Budget the Old-Fashioned Way: Incrementally

Bureaucracy: Servant Or Master? Lessons from America

Tax Processes

Understanding Tax Policy

Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve

From Redistributive to Hegemonic Logic: The Transformation of American Tax Politics, 1894-1963

Deficit Politics

Institutional Constraints and Political Choice

The Politicization of the Constitution

Monetary Processes

The Political Structure of the Federal Reserve System

In Defense of the Federal Reserve

External Pressure and the Operations of the Fed

Recent Changes in Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Effects of Economic Policy

The REAL Economy

Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance

The Expansion of the Political Economy: A Comparative Analysis

The Electoral-Economic Cycle

Elections and the Economy in the 1980s: Short- and Long-Term Effects

A Model of the Political Economy of the United States

Recent Trends in Tax Progressivity, Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office Recent Trends in Economic Outcomes

Short Version

Broad Theories

Introduction and Readings, (Musgrave, Friedman, and O'Connor)

Regulation of the Private Sector

Introduction, Readings, (Downs, Stigler, Weidenbaum, Arrow) and Summary of Recent Developments

Effects of Economic Policy

Introduction, Readings (Reich; Frieden; Cameron; Tufte; Fiorina; Alesina et al.; the CBO) and Summary of Recent Developments

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