The Return Of The Deficit

Author : Etienne de Callataÿ
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058679233
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Deficit written by Etienne de Callataÿ and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008 Belgium's fiscal balances and debt ratios seemed to be on a firm consolidation path. Today, however, Belgium is facing a major budgetary challenge, albeit to some extent lesser than that of other European countries. This book offers a closer look at the evolution of public finance in Belgium over the decade 2000-2010. It covers Belgium's macro-economic environment, its budgetary policy, changes to the tax system and social security, the evolution of public expenditure, debt management, and fiscal federalism.

Author : Stephanie Kelton
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541736206
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deficit Myth written by Stephanie Kelton and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society. Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find the money to pay for it, rooted in myths about deficits that are hobbling us as a country. Kelton busts through the myths that prevent us from taking action: that the federal government should budget like a household, that deficits will harm the next generation, crowd out private investment, and undermine long-term growth, and that entitlements are propelling us toward a grave fiscal crisis. MMT, as Kelton shows, shifts the terrain from narrow budgetary questions to one of broader economic and social benefits. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT redefines how to responsibly use our resources so that we can maximize our potential as a society. MMT gives us the power to imagine a new politics and a new economy and move from a narrative of scarcity to one of opportunity.

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673474
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth: Reform Beyond Electoral Politics written by Henry A. Giroux and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as ""four fundamentalisms"": market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly desi.

Author : Richard R. Valencia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136988084
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking written by Richard R. Valencia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of color from learning. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to this oppressive theory by framing the linkages between prevailing theoretical perspectives and contemporary practices within the complex historical development of deficit thinking. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking examines the ongoing social construction of deficit thinking in three aspects of current discourse – the genetic pathology model, the culture of poverty model, and the "at-risk" model in which poor students, students of color, and their families are pathologized and marginalized. Richard R. Valencia challenges these three contemporary components of the deficit thinking theory by providing incisive critiques and discussing competing explanations for the pervasive school failure of many students in the nation’s public schools. Valencia also discusses a number of proactive, anti-deficit thinking suggestions from the fields of teacher education, educational leadership, and educational ethnography that are intended to provide a more equitable and democratic schooling for all students.

Author : James Bovard
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466892757
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attention Deficit Democracy written by James Bovard and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively attack on politicians, voters and government. Bovard's indictment of an ineffective but ever-expanding federal government would make any libertarian proud." --New York Post Does the people's need to believe in the president trump their duty to understand, to think critically, and demand truth? Have Americans been conditioned to ignore political frauds and believe the lies perpetuated by campaign ads? James Bovard diagnoses a national malady called "Attention Deficit Democracy," characterized by a citizenry that seems to be paying less attention to facts, and is less capable of judging when their rights and liberties are under attack. Bovard's careful research combined with his characteristically caustic style will give "ADD" a whole new meaning that pundits, politicians, and we the people will find hard to ignore.

Author : Zell Miller
Publisher : Stroud & Hall Pub
ISBN 13 : 0974537616
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A National Party No More written by Zell Miller and published by Stroud & Hall Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democratic senator discusses issues and values he recommends the Democratic Party must embrace to make the party relevant for the American people.

Author : E. D. Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547346964
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge Deficit written by E. D. Hirsch and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important message, eloquently expressed." --Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works "If we did what E.D. Hirsch said, and made sure that all students, regardless of race, income, or neighborhood, were exposed to a rich, challenging, sequenced curriculum in important subjects, schools could make a much bigger difference than they already do." --Ed McElroy, president, American Federation of Teachers "[Hirsch] wants to reverse the current emphasis on reading as a mechanical process and replace it with content-rich curriculum that will turn all children into knowledgeable readers. It's a worthy goal for our schools in an increasingly competitive globalized world." New York Post "On many fronts, Hirsch's book challenges the conventional educational wisdown. Parents ought to check it out." --Rocky Mountain News "[A] powerful argument . . . [Hirsch's] well-reasoned, common-sense proposals address a vital issue, and his book provides a valuable addition to the debate on public policy in education." --Richmond Times-Dispatch —

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Interpreting the Return to Budget Deficits - OMB ATCHATCH OMB. written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current $455 billion deficit is: • the highest deficit in current dollar terms in history • the highest deficit adjusted for inflation since WWII • $1,561 per person • 4.2% of GDP In addition, when you exclude the social security surplus, the deficit is currently 5.7% of GDP and the second largest percentage since WWII (only the 1983 budget under Reagan had a larger deficit.) Scope of the Defi. [...] These percentages were calculated using the size of the budget deterioration from an earlier projection of the 2003 surplus, not the change from the actual 2000 surplus. [...] To the extent that the economic projections were overly optimistic in 2001 (as they turned out to be), the share of the deterioration due to economic factors is overstated. [...] Structural deficit In addition to budget estimates, the congressional budget office also calculates a "standardized" budget, which is the deficit that would have been in place if the economy were operating at its potential level.2 In 2002, the CBO estimated that of the $158 billion deficit for that year, $153 billion was the standardized deficit. [...] The current level of deficits will hopefully prove to be, in OMB director Bolten's words, "manageable." However, the persistence and the magnitude of the deficits, especially considering current and future needs that are going unmet, as well as the unprecedented dive from surplus to deficits, are a sign that the current administration is not acting in a responsible manner on tax and budget issues.

Author : Dimitry Kochenov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178225482X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe’s Justice Deficit? written by Dimitry Kochenov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gradual legal and political evolution of the European Union has not, thus far, been accompanied by the articulation or embrace of any substantive ideal of justice going beyond the founders' intent or the economic objectives of the market integration project. This absence arguably compromises the foundations of the EU legal and political system since the relationship between law and justice-a crucial question within any constitutional system-remains largely unaddressed. This edited volume brings together a number of concise contributions by leading academics and young scholars whose work addresses both legal and philosophical aspects of justice in the European context. The aim of the volume is to appraise the existence and nature of this deficit, its implications for Europe's future, and to begin a critical discussion about how it might be addressed. There have been many accounts of the EU as a story of constitutional evolution and a system of transnational governance, but few which pay sustained attention to the implications for justice. The EU today has moved beyond its initial and primary emphasis on the establishment of an Internal Market, as the growing importance of EU citizenship and social rights suggests. Yet, most legal analyses of the EU treaties and of EU case-law remain premised broadly on the assumption that EU law still largely serves the purpose of perfecting what is fundamentally a system of economic integration. The place to be occupied by the underlying substantive ideal of justice remains significantly underspecified or even vacant, creating a tension between the market-oriented foundation of the Union and the contemporary essence of its constitutional system. The relationship of law to justice is a core dimension of constitutional systems around the world, and the EU is arguably no different in this respect. The critical assessment of justice in the EU provided by the contributions to this book will help to create a fuller picture of the justice deficit in the EU, and at the same time open up an important new avenue of legal research of immediate importance.

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Total Pages : 1378 pages
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Download or read book Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: