Control of Federal Expenditures: A Documentary History, 1775-1894 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Powell, Fred Wilbur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1528232437 ISBN 13: 9781528232432

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Control of Federal Expenditures: A Documentary History, 1775-1894

Within the last few years there has been an awakening of public interest in the matter of control over the expenditures of the national government and a revival of interest within the group of special students of public administration and of public finance. There are few books on the subj ect; and the basic materials are widely scattered through numerous official publications which are out of print and available in few libraries. Bibliographical aids and indexes are unsatisfactory.

These materials cover a period of well over a century. They constitute an almost continuous record of what was thought, or at least said, by the men who participated in de bates on financial and accounting bills, of the facts and argu ments presented by legislative committees, and of the results achieved by officials responsible for administering the system which was evolved through a long series of statutes.

It is not a complete record. Important measures have been sometimes introduced and enacted without adequate reports or recorded discussion. It is not a perfect record. Discussion has been sometimes ill - informed, insincere, prejudiced, parti san, or irrelevant, reports in some cases have been the same.

When one attempts to subject the official records to the test of comparison with the personal papers of the men who have participated in financial legislation or administration, the result is often disappointing, for the subject of finance has seldom been the major interest of biographers, literary executors, and compilers of works and writings.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1528232437
• ISBN 13: 9781528232432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 952