Trends in Government Financing - Morris Albert Copeland

The author indicates that war expenditures have been the most important single cause of the increase in the federal debt, with government countercyclical expenditures second. Increase in state and local debts is found to be largely due to the technological revolution.

Originally published in 1961.

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