The Cost of Our National Government: A Study in Political Pathology

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Columbia University Press, 1910 - 147 psl.
Contains the substance of lectures delivered at Columbia University during 1909 which focused on budgetary issues such as, the growth of expenditure, creating a national budget, constitutional agencies of budget control, and political conditions of budgeting.

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