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The Strange Disappearance of Investment in Human and Physical Capital in the United States.

Many scholars have argued that there are strong incentives for states to spend less money on redistributive or consumption programs, such as welfare, and more on developmental or investment programs, such as highways. Yet, over the last few decades, the proportion of state budgets allocated to expen...

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Published in:Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 215 - 233
Main Authors: Witko, Christopher, Newmark, Adam J.
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / UK January 2010
Subjects:
U.S. state budgets
Public finance
Roads
Educational finance
Higher education
United States
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