Public Spending in the 20th Century: A Global Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521662918)

This book discusses the changing role of government finance in the twentieth century. It documents the enormous increase in government spending throughout the 1900s across all industrialized countries. However, the authors find that the growth of the welfare state over the past thirty-five years has not brought about much additional social and economic welfare. This suggests that public spending in industrialized countries could be much smaller than today without sacrificing important policy objectives. For this to happen, governments need to refocus their role on setting the rules of the game, and the study provides a blueprint of institutional and expenditure policy reform.

Author: Vito Tanzi, Ludger Schuknecht
ISBN-10: 0521662915
ISBN-13: 9780521662918
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2000
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.34w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2000 pg. 582