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Setting national priorities : budget choices for the next century

Author: Henry J Aaron; Robert D Reischauer; et al
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book will serve as a guide for understanding and evaluating proposals of the next Congress and the Clinton administration. Edited by Robert D.

Reischauer, one of the nation's most noted budget experts, the book covers such critical issues as whether any measures to stimulate economic growth can also reduce the budget deficit, how to reduce domestic discretionary spending, how to restructure medicare, how much

This book will be extremely useful for citizens eager to make sense out of the post-election rhetoric, journalists attempting to explain the issues at play, and students of public policy, public health, political science, and economics.  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Henry J Aaron; Robert D Reischauer; et al
ISBN: 0815773986 9780815773986 0815773978 9780815773979
OCLC Number: 35842596
Description: xiii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The budget : crucible for the policy agenda / Robert D. Reischauer --
Is faster growth the cure for budget deficits? / Charles L. Schultze --
The future of the social safety net / Gary Burtless, R. Kent Weaver, & Joshua M. Wiener --
The unfulfillable promise : cutting nondefense discretionary spending / Robert D. Reischauer --
International security reconsidered / John D. Steinbruner & William W. Kaufmann --
Restructuring Medicare for the future / David M. Cutler --
Fundamental tax reform : miracle or mirage? / Henry J. Aaron & William G. Gale --
Preparing for the baby boomers' retirement / Henry J. Aaron & Barry P. Bosworth.
Responsibility: Henry J. Aaron ... [et al.] ; Robert D. Reischauer, editor.

Abstract:

This book will serve as a guide for understanding and evaluating proposals of the next Congress and the Clinton administration. Edited by Robert D.

Reischauer, one of the nation's most noted budget experts, the book covers such critical issues as whether any measures to stimulate economic growth can also reduce the budget deficit, how to reduce domestic discretionary spending, how to restructure medicare, how much to lower the safety net, how to reshape national security for the post-cold war world, whether to transform the tax system, and how to prepare for the retirement of the baby boom generation.

This book will be extremely useful for citizens eager to make sense out of the post-election rhetoric, journalists attempting to explain the issues at play, and students of public policy, public health, political science, and economics.

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