New Perspectives on State Government Fiscal Challenges
New Perspectives on State Government Fiscal Challenges

Author: Barry W. Poulson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1666932043

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In this book on new fiscal approaches, nineteen experts examine topics ranging from constitutional reform and debt fatigue to fiscal rules and zero-based budgeting. Together, these contributions inform a multifaceted, nuanced argument for the need to formalize spending restraint and redefine state debt to include unfunded liabilities. Scholars will find the book useful as a reference tool explaining how rules-based fiscal policy is used to address debt fatigue and unsustainable spending growth. Legislators and practitioners will find the book useful as a reference source in designing and simulating second generation fiscal rules, and educators will find the book helpful for its close analysis of policies in representative states such as Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, and California.

Internal Improvement
Internal Improvement

Author: John Lauritz Larson

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780807849118

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When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces

Special Report
Special Report

Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13:

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Canals For A Nation
Canals For A Nation

Author: Ronald E. Shaw

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0813145821

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All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.