TY - BOOK AU - Yarrow,Andrew L. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Forgive us our debts: the intergenerational dangers of fiscal irresponsibility AV - HJ8119 .Y37 2008 U1 - 336.3/40973 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Debts, Public KW - United States KW - Budget deficits KW - Fiscal policy KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-165) and index; What are deficits and debt, and why are they growing? -- Balancing and unbalancing our budget : a history of government debt in the United States -- How deficits are funded -- How deficits and debt affect America and you -- The potential dangers of doing nothing, or fiddling while our economy goes up in smoke -- The politics of deficits and debt -- What can and should be done to reduce America's deficits and debt? -- Concluding thoughts : a nation that balances its books and a government that invests in America's future; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3420435 ER -