Blais and Dion, THE BUDGET-MAXIMIZING BUREAUCRAT: APPRAISALS AND EVIDENCE, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1991--Thirteen scholars evaluate findings relevant to William Niskanen's provocative model of bureaucractic behavior and he offers a reassessment of his theory. 366 pages
Church, Forrester, GOD AND OTHER FAMOUS LIBERALS, Simon & Schuster--The author returns to the wellsprings of Christianity and American freedom to reassert liberalism's primary role in our national life. 167 pages
Heilbroner & Bernstein, THE DEBT AND THE DEFICIT: FALSE ALARMS/REAL POSSIBILITIES, Norton, 1989--A primer on the implications of the deficit, and an explanation of exactly what problems and possibilities the national debt presents. 144 pages
Makin, John, THE GLOBAL DEBT CRISIS: AMERICA'S GROWING INVOLVEMENT, New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1984--Tells how the banks, encouraged by U.S. inflationary policies, went on a lending binge to Third World countries and explains why neither the interest or the principle, in most cases, will be repaid and how that effects the American economy and our own national debt. 269 pages
Malkin, Lawrence, THE NATIONAL DEBT, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1987--Explains why the government, and the rest of us, have delayed putting our house in order; how Reaganomics delivered something very different from what it promised; how we turned into a net debtor to the rest of the world, how our economic destiny is increasingly determined by foreigners and how the the debt impposes unimaginable constraints on our society. 298 pages
Medoff, James and Harless, Andrew THE INDEBTED SOCIETY, Brown and Company, NYC, 1996
Peterson, Peter, FACING UP: HOW TO RESCUE THE ECONOMY FROM CRUSHING DEBT AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM, Simon & Schuster, 1993--Presents sobering facts and claims that balancing the budget requires a measure of sacrifice from the broad American middle class as well as the truly wealthy; offers a detailed, comopassionate and workable program for zeroing out the budget deficit and turning it to surplus by the year 2000. 392 pages
Peterson, Peter and Howe, Neil, ON BORROWED TIME; HOW THE GROWTH IN ENTITLEMENT SPENDING THREATENS AMERICA'S FUTURE, ICS Press, 1988--A former Secretary of Commerce demonstrates that our nation cannot afford all the spending that has been promised. Because of future demographic and social forces, entitlement spending will become a crushing burden to future American workers. Shows we are buying gratification today at the expense of preparation for tomorrow. 412 pages
Rogers, H.P., TAKING A STAND ON THE NATIONAL DEBT, Wellington, CA 1991--Informal Q&A form makes a complicated issue easier to understand. Little known facts about the budget process and congress are highlighted. 140 pages
Rogers, H.P., THE DEBT: 12 STEPS TO EASE THE CRISIS, Wellington, CA 1988--Explores what it means to be the world's largest debtor nation; 12 steps are offered showing how innovation in these areas can ease the deficit crisis. 435 pages
Rogers, H.P., THE AMERICAN DEFICIT: FULFILLMENT OF A PROPHECY?, Wellington, CA 1988--Looks at our debt, past, present and future from various perspectives and casts doubt on some widely held beliefs. Well researched and readily understood. 230 pages
Schick, Allen, CONGRESS AND MONEY: BUDGETING, SPENDING AND TAXING, Urban Institute, 1980--Places the formulation and early development of the budget process in its historical context and shows how Congress makes decisions about money. paper 591 pages
Schick, Allen, RECONCILIATION AND THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS, American Enterprise Institute, 1981-- Argues that reconciliation could produce far-reaching changes in federal budgeting, in legislative-executive relations and in congressional behavior. paper 47 pages
Wildavsky, Aaron, HOW TO LIMIT GOVERNMENT SPENDING, Univ of CA Press, 1981--Argues for a constitutional amendment limiting federal expenditure to a fixed percentage of the Gross National Product in order to both decrease taxes and lessen inflation. 197 pages