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Who Decides the Budget?: Mark Hallerberg; Carlos Scartascini; Ernesto Stein; The budget is the main tool used to allocate scarce public resources, and it is in the context of the budget process that politicians must make trade-offs between different policy priorities. This volume describes the budget practices, both formal and informal, in ten countries of Latin America and explains fiscal results in terms of these four features.; Paperback September 2009

Institutional Foundations of Public Finance: Edited by Alan J. Auerbach; Edited by Daniel N. Shaviro; Auerbach integrates economic and legal perspectives on taxation and fiscal policy, offering a provocative assessment of the most important issues in public finance today.; Hardcover January 2009