BUDGETING AND GOVERNING
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BUDGETING AND GOVERNING (ebook)

AARON WILDAVSKY

$1,360.00
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ROUTLEDGE
ISBN:
9781351530552
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Epublication content package
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Inglés
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Si

Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together. This concern may at first appear to have little to do with the study of budgeting, but for Wildavsky budgeting made living together possible. Indeed, as he argues in Budgeting and Governing, now available in paperback, if you cannot budget, you cannot govern.

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