كتاب
We are better than this: how government should spend our money
| العنوان: | We are better than this: how government should spend our money |
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| المؤلفون: | Kleinbard, Edward D. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xxvii, 509 pages ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Fiscal policy -- United States., Finance, Public -- United States., Government spending policy -- United States., BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business., POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy., BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Taxation / General. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | United States -- Appropriations and expenditures. |
| الوصف: | "We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government's ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs that enhance the general welfare and prosperity of our society at large. He argues that when we choose how government should spend and tax, we open a window into our "fiscal soul," because those choices are the means by which we express the values we cherish and the regard in which we hold our fellow citizens. Though these values are being diminished by short-sighted decisions to starve government, strategic government spending can directly make citizens happier, healthier, and even wealthier. Expertly combining the latest economic research with his insider knowledge of the budget process into a simple yet compelling narrative, he unmasks the tax mythologies and false arguments that too often dominate contemporary discourse about budget policies. Large quantities of comparative data are succinctly distilled to situate the United States among its peer countries, so that readers can judge for themselves whether contemporary budget choices really reflect our aspirational fiscal soul. Kleinbard's presentation takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on economics, finance, law, political science and moral philosophy. He uniquely weaves economic research and moral philosophy together by emphasizing our welfare, not just our national income, and by contrasting the actual beliefs of Adam Smith, a great moral philosopher, with the cartoon version of the man presented by proponents of the most extreme forms of private market triumphalism"-- "A book which examines how government - which is to say, all of us, acting collectively - can make our country healthier, wealthier and happier, if we put government to useful work in those areas where it most productively complements our private markets"-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: OUR FISCAL SOUL IN PERIL -- Chapter 1: The Happiness of Society -- Chapter 2: Our Descent from Moral Philosophy to Narcissism -- Chapter 3: Our Dismal Report Card -- Chapter 4: Inequality Defenders, Deniers and Dissemblers -- Chapter 5: The Growth Fairy -- PART II: STARVING OUR FISCAL SOUL -- Chapter 6: An Overweight Government? -- Chapter 7: Are High Taxes Killing Us? -- Chapter 8: The Hidden Hand of Government Spending -- Chapter 9: A Field Guide to False Fiscal Crises -- PART III: RECLAIMING OUR FISCAL SOUL -- Chapter 10: Government Investment -- Chapter 11: Government As Insurer -- Chapter 12: From Progressive Tax to Progressive Fiscal System -- Chapter 13: The Better Base Case -- Chapter 14: Conclusion: We Are Better Than This. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn882738809 (PromptCat)99959812880 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-19-933224-3 0-19-933224-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014161015.8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780199332243 019933224X |
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