{"product_id":"the-congressional-budget-office-philip-g-joyce-9781589017573","title":"The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking","description":"\u003cp\u003eCreated in 1974, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. A critical component of our system of checks and balances, the CBO has given Congress the analytical capacity to challenge the president on budget issues while it protects the public interest, providing honest numbers about Congress's own budget proposals. The book discusses the CBO's role in larger budget policy and the more narrow \"scoring\" of individual legislation, such as its role in the 2009-2010 Obama health care reform. It also describes how the first director, Alice Rivlin, and seven successors managed to create and sustain a nonpartisan, highly credible agency in the middle of one of the most partisan institutions imaginable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policy\u003c\/i\u003e draws on interviews with high-level participants in the budget debates of the last 35 years to tell the story of the CBO. A combination of political history, economic history, and organizational development, \u003ci\u003eThe Congressional Budget Office\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important, first book-length history of this influential agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip G. Joyce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589017579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589017573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011 pg. 91","brand":"Philip G. Joyce","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996348055807,"sku":"9781589017573","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_599885c0-4571-4222-a9f9-f2ad848ba40b.jpg?v=1683341172","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-congressional-budget-office-philip-g-joyce-9781589017573","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}