The Local State: Public Money and American Cities

Author/Contributor(s):	Monkkonen, Eric H
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	01/01/1996
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

With the United States on the way to becoming an almost completely urban nation, the financing of cities has become an issue of great urgency; put simply, American cities do not have enough money. This book examines the role of local fiscal policies and fiscal politics in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.