Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy

This book brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to explore the problems of budget policy. The authors, including top economists, political scientists, historians, psychologists, and legal scholars, together provide a unique, multidisciplinary introduction to the subject. In addition to in-depth analysis of congressional budget procedures and the economics of federal deficits and debt, Fiscal Challenges explores important recent developments in budget policy at the state level and in the European Union. The volume offers readers wide-ranging perspectives on the many different academic disciplines and perspectives that bear on the evaluation of budgetary procedures and their reform.

Elizabeth Garrett is the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. She is also the Co-Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics. Elizabeth A. Graddy is a professor of public policy and political science at the University of Southern California and the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs in the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development. Howell E. Jackson is the James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard University. His research interests include financial regulation, consumer protection, and federal budget policy.