The Federal Budget as an Instrument for Analysis, Planning, and Management

Melvin Anshen

ResearchPublished 1965

A discussion of existing and proposed federal budgetary procedures, covering such subjects as major uses of the federal budget, problems in allocating resources at the national level, characteristics of a useful budget structure, and deficiencies in the present federal budget. (Chap. 1 in D.Novick (ed.), Program Budgeting, Harvard University Press, 1965.)

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