24 cm, 430, figures, tables, footnotes, notes, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Describes, in great detail and with compelling logic, how America finances our enormous entitlement programs through deficits instead of paying for them as we go and saving for the future.

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Title

On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future

Publisher

ICS Press, Place_Pub: San Francisco, CA

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

155815003X

ISBN 13

9781558150034

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First? Edition. First? Printing.

Condition

good, good

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Synopsis

Clears up misconceptions about entitlement spending, argues that it will become an overwhelming burden on future workers

Review

This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand how government spending can be controlled. - Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University; ""A powerful analyses and policy prescriptions which will challenge every thoughtful person coping with the dilemma of providing humane, but cost effective, entitlements."" - Michael J. Boskin, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

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