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Military spending boosts the deficit

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1985
Propelled by strategic weapons, the growing military portion of the budget is sending the federal deficit to unprecedented levels. Even greater increases are planned for future years.
Laura Weiss, Gordon Adams
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Government Spending and Budget Deficits in the Industrial Countries [PDF]

Economic Policy, 1989
Fiscal policy Nouriel Roubini and Jeffrey Sachs This paper examines the evolution of the size of government and of budget deficits in OECD economies. We highlight the rapid increase in government spending in the 1970s, the sharp rise in budget deficits and public debt after 1973, and the reversal in these trends in the 1980s.
Nouriel Roubini, Jeffrey Sachs, Seppo Honkapohja, Daniel Cohen   +3 more
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The Loan Ratio and Deficit Spending: Comment

Journal of Political Economy, 1953
Martin Bronfenbrenner
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Government spending and the budget deficit [PDF]

Journal of Business Ethics, 1990
The business community of Canada manifests questionable moral and ethical standards in its criticism of government spending, since it itself bears considerable responsibility for the increase in government spending and budget deficits. The contradiction arises from the failure of the business community to recognize the liberalization of society at ...
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Postwar Deficit Spending in the United States

American Politics Quarterly, 1997
This article analyzes the relative importance of 5 of the primary influences suggested in the literature on the size of the U.S. federal deficit during the postwar period: the state of the economy, the identity of the political party in power, Roubini and Sachs's "strength-of-government" hypothesis, the "irresponsible Congress/responsible president ...
Sung Deuk Hahm, David C. Mowery, Mark S. Kamlet   +2 more
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The Loan Ratio and Deficit Spending

Journal of Political Economy, 1953
IN THE October, 195 1, issue of this Journal, Professor Martin Bronfenbrenner proposed and argued for the use of a "loan ratio" as an inflationary control weapon.2 He contended that the primary force of the postwar inflation was due to monetary causes and hence that the containment of inflation could best be achieved by purely monetary measures.
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Influences on Deficit Spending in Industrialized Democracies

Journal of Public Policy, 1995
ABSTRACTSince 1945, there has been substantial variation among the OECD countries and within them over time in central-government deficits. This paper surveys and assesses the literature on deficit spending in these industrialized democracies, emphasizing positive theories and the empirical support, or lack thereof, for each of them.
David C. Mowery, Sung Deuk Hahm, Mark S. Kamlet   +2 more
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Medicare and Medicaid Spending Trends and the Deficit Debate

New England Journal of Medicine, 2012
Are proposed major structural changes to Medicare and Medicaid really necessary to create sustainable spending growth? Projections based on recent trends in per-enrollee spending suggest that the answer is no.
John Holahan, Stacey McMorrow
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Warum Deficit-Spending nicht hilft

2018
„Am langen Ende sind wir alle tot“, antwortete John Maynard Keynes auf die berechtigte Kritik an seiner Lehre der bewussten Inkaufnahme von Haushaltsdefiziten (Deficit-Spending). Er wusste – im Gegensatz zu seinen Epigonen – selbst sehr wohl, dass die (einseitige) Auslegung seiner Theorie durch die Politik (und die mit ihr verbandelte Finanzindustrie ...
Christoph Braunschweig, Bernhard Pichler
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The Effects of Government Deficits Spending on the Nigerian Economy [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The study investigates the effects of government Deficits spending (GDS) on the macro economy of Nigeria. The study covered the period of 1986 to 2011. Time series data for the period were gathered mainly from the CBN statistical Bulletin, 2010, 2011. One hypothesis as been proposed namely (Ho) that Government Deficit Spending does not have significant
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