TY - BOOK AU - Studenski,Paul AU - Krooss,Herman Edward TI - Financial history of the United States: fiscal, monetary, banking, and tariff, including financial administration and State and local finance AV - HG181 .S83 1963 U1 - 332.0973 PY - 1963/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Finance KW - Economic conditions KW - United States N1 - This book is essentially a history of government finance beginning with the colonial period-a sprightly and incisive chronicle of the kinds of taxes levied and their productivity, other sources of revenue, the amounts and purposes of government expenditure, and the growth of government debt and all the problems and policies concerned with it, with some attention given to the development of legislative and administrative machinery and personnel for fiscal management. The book focuses predominantly upon the finances of the federal government; Includes bibliography ER -