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Search - Dead Men Ruling: How to Restore Fiscal Freedom and Rescue Our Future

Dead Men Ruling How to Restore Fiscal Freedom and Rescue Our Future
Author: C. Eugene Steuerle

The news coming out of Washington, D.C., and reverberating around the nation increasingly sounds like a broken record: low or zero growth in employment, inadequate funds to pay future Social Security and Medicare obligations, cuts in funding for education and children's programs, arbitrary sequesters or cutbacks in good and bad programs alike, t... more »hreats not to pay our nation's debts, inability to reach political compromise, and political parties with no real vision for twenty-first-century government.In Dead Men Ruling, C. Eugene Steuerle argues that these seemingly separable economic and political problems are actually symptoms of a common disease, one unique to our time. Despite the despairing claims of many, Steuerle points out that we no more live in an age of austerity than did Americans at the turn into the twentieth century with the demise of the frontier. Recognizing this extraordinary but checked potential is also the secret to breaking the political logjam that ?as Steuerle points out ?was created largely by now dead (or retired) men.Praise for Dead Men Ruling "Great book. I could not put it down. Gene Steuerle's Dead Men Ruling... documents how and why American governments at all levels... are crowding out discretionary spending that would allow the country to respond flexibly to challenges and opportunities and make economically and socially productive investments." ?James J. Heckman, Nobel Prize Laureate and professor of economics, University of Chicago "This book moves beyond the urgent to the truly important as it seeks to provide a broad theory of our problems and to chart a forward course." ?Lawrence H. Summers, former secretary of the treasury and former director, White House National Economic Council "Everyone who cares about the future of America's children should read Steuerle's book.... He makes a compelling case that a nation that does not invest in its children is a nation in decline." ?Ruby Takanishi, former president of the Foundation for Child Development and senior research fellow, Early Education Initiative, New America Foundation [add contents if there's room] Contents 1. Introduction: The Challenge at Hand 2. At a Fiscal Turning Point 3. From Whence It Came 4. Postwar Fiscal Policy: The Gradual Demise of Fiscal Democracy 5. From Controlling the Present to Controlling the Future 6. The Four Deadly Economic Consequences 7. The Three Deadly Political Consequences 8. The Counter-Revolution 9. Envisioning a Better Future 10. Restoring Fiscal Freedom: Another Shot at Greatness

ISBN-13: 9780870785382
ISBN-10: 0870785389
Publication Date: 3/31/2014
Pages: 200
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Publisher: The Century Foundation
Book Type: Paperback
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