The Cost of Our National Government: A Study in Political PathologyColumbia 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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... submitted to the British Parliament , they appear to be much inferior as a source of information . The British estimates are an analytic exhibit of the various sorts of expenditure , exactly classified , even to the extent of supplying ...
... submitted to the British Parliament , they appear to be much inferior as a source of information . The British estimates are an analytic exhibit of the various sorts of expenditure , exactly classified , even to the extent of supplying ...
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... submitted and to transmit them to Congress on the opening day of the session , together with his own estimate of the probable revenues of the government . It may seem strange that the various executive depart- ments should act ...
... submitted and to transmit them to Congress on the opening day of the session , together with his own estimate of the probable revenues of the government . It may seem strange that the various executive depart- ments should act ...
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... submitted . Mr. Gardner , one of the House conferees , who in March , 1909 , reported a conference agreement yielding to the Senate , summed up the situation as follows : - " Mr. Speaker , I think it is due to the House to say that for ...
... submitted . Mr. Gardner , one of the House conferees , who in March , 1909 , reported a conference agreement yielding to the Senate , summed up the situation as follows : - " Mr. Speaker , I think it is due to the House to say that for ...
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... submitting . to legislative blackmail at the demand , in my opinion , of one in- dividual , I shall not say where , or of letting these great money bills fail . Now , what are we going to do about it ? This bill con- tains many ...
... submitting . to legislative blackmail at the demand , in my opinion , of one in- dividual , I shall not say where , or of letting these great money bills fail . Now , what are we going to do about it ? This bill con- tains many ...
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... submitted by the government , but is exposed to committee manipulation , and opportunities exist for action in behalf of private interests at the expense of public interests . Representative institutions do not necessarily secure ...
... submitted by the government , but is exposed to committee manipulation , and opportunities exist for action in behalf of private interests at the expense of public interests . Representative institutions do not necessarily secure ...
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The Cost of Our National Government– A Study in Political Pathology Henry Jones Ford Visos knygos peržiūra - 1910 |
The Cost of Our National Government– A Study in Political Pathology Henry Jones Ford Visos knygos peržiūra - 1910 |
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