Foreword--Preface--Acknowledgments--Introduction--Chapter 1: The origin and evolution of Mississippi's budget process and control over it--Chapter 2: Legislative power weakened--Chapter 3: The budget process, postreorganization, under Allain--Chapter 4: Temporarily enhanced executive influence...

“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.” - Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA "The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine...

1. Introduction -- 2. Debt Is the Price of Liberty -- 3. Bounded by War -- 4. Building a Visible Government -- 5. The End of Balanced Budgets -- 6. In Pursuit of Full Employment -- 7. A New Era of Congressional Budgeting -- 8. Breaking up the Budget Process

This comprehensive explanation of the U.S. government''s role in economics will be an eye-opener for anyone who wants to understand exactly what the government does-and doesn''t do-in this most critical area