The Fiscal Impact of Federalism in the United States

Maxwell, James A.

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“…Now, a major difference, Buchanan named the problem, speaking of “the dilemma of federalism” (1947: 1). Buchanan was actually not the first to use the word “dilemma” to characterize the financial problems of federal regimes in this way (Warner, 1933: 117; Corry, 1941; Ross, 1943: 888, 889; Maxwell, 1946: 39). It was James A. Maxwell and his work The Fiscal Impact of Federalism in the United States that Buchanan cited.…”

Section: Buchanan's Second-term Paper: Ethics and The Inefficiency Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The origins of Buchanan's views on federalism, Chicago 1946–1947

Marciano

2019

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Buchanan's first writings about federalism and fiscal justice were “'Federalism’: One Barrier to Labor Mobility” and “A Theory of Financial Balance in a Federal State,” two term papers that he wrote before his dissertation and that have never been discussed before. Studying them allows us to complete the recent literature on the origins of Buchanan's fiscal federalism. We show that most of Buchanan's ideas about fiscal equity were already in these works, and also that Buchanan made other claims and used other arguments – about mobility, for instance – that were absent from the dissertation but remained important to him for a long time. We also analyze these essays in the context in which Buchanan was at that time, namely the economics department of the University of Chicago. We show how Buchanan fed on, not to say was influenced by, the courses for which he wrote these essays. This allows us to shed new light on the role Theodore Schultz, D. Gale Johnson, Henry Simons, and Roy Blough, played at the beginning of Buchanan's career.

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Section: Buchanan's Second-term Paper: Ethics and The Inefficiency Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It was not very original. Most federal countries used them and many public finance specialists, including the ones Buchanan cited or quoted – Adarkar (1933), Maxwell (1946) and Blough (1935) – defended them. Buchanan himself had already mentioned that possibility earlier.…”

Section: Buchanan's Second-term Paper: Ethics and The Inefficiency Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

The origins of Buchanan's views on federalism, Chicago 1946–1947

Marciano

2019

Journal of Institutional Economics

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“…51 Specifi cally, through "federal assumption, " the federal government took over the administration of the program in several states that failed to meet grant requirements. 52 However, federal administrators found themselves confronted with the intricacies of petty local issues as well as reduced state cooperation and fi nancial contributions. 53 In addition, various states entered into "partnerships" with the federal government to administer their programs.…”

Section: Federal Emergency Relief Administrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…52 However, federal administrators found themselves confronted with the intricacies of petty local issues as well as reduced state cooperation and fi nancial contributions. 53 In addition, various states entered into "partnerships" with the federal government to administer their programs. 54 Before FERA, federal options in the case of noncompliance had largely been limited to the withdrawal of federal funds, which runs contrary to the interests of those federal policymakers who seek the substantive outcomes that the grants were intended to produce.…”

Section: Federal Emergency Relief Administrationmentioning

confidence: 99%