The Price of Government Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis

In a time when government leaders are searching for solutions to seemingly intractable fiscal problems, The Price of Government is a clear, step-by-step roadmap for change, offering concrete strategies drawn from the authors' combined thirty years of experience leading and advising public institutions. It offers a new way to look at government spending-and a new way to think about how government should work-including a revolutionary new approach to budgeting that has already spread to more than a dozen states, cities, counties and school districts. Book jacket.

David Osborne, author of Laboratories of Democracy, is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, Governing, and other publications. He is also a consultant to state and local governments.Ted Gaebler, former city manager of Visalia, California, and Vandalia, Ohio, is president of the Gaebler Group, a division of MRC, a public-sector management-consulting firm, in San Rafael, California. Peter Hutchinson is founder and President of The Public Strategies Group. He previously served as Commissioner of Finance in Minnesota, where he introduced several innovations in state budgeting and fiscal management. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.