War and Taxes
Steven A. Bank, Kirk J. Stark, and Joseph J. Thorndike | $26.50
Has the United States broken a noble tradition of fiscal sacrifice with the current, unprecedented wartime tax cuts? Or are they the mark of new economic, and social forces at work? War and Taxes weighs the question by considering six conflicts that span the American Revolution to the present war in Iraq. more
Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy, Second Edition
C. Eugene Steuerle | $29.50
Tax policy history has been messy, repetitive, and often rancorous. Yet, evolution—and even revolution—do occur. The second edition has been updated with a look at tax policy during the George W. Bush presidency. more
Meet the AuthorHarry Hatry, author of Performance Measurement: Getting Results, Second Edition is a distinguished fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where he directs the Institute's Public Management Program. He spoke about how performance measurement can improve service delivery: Hatry: It's the attempt in a systematic way to regularly provide data to agency officials about the outcomes and the efficiency of their programs. That information should provide guidance for managers to improve, to find out where problems exist, to see where they are doing well and where they are not doing well. They can then take action and use later performance measurement reports to see if the desired outcomes occurred. more | | |
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