Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction: Economic and Fiscal Performance in a Mean-Variance Perspective
1. Champions of the State Growth League
2. The End of State Income Convergence
3. Volatile States: Estimates of the Risk-Return Trade-Off
4. Demise of the State Sales Tax
5. Economic Consequences of State Tax Policy
6. Reliability of Revenues from Alternative Tax Instruments
7. State Budgets Outgrow State Incomes
8. Fiscal Uncertainty:The Enemy of Efficient Budgeting
9. Political Ideology and Other Drivers of State Budget Priorities
10. Fresh Perspectives on Familiar Problems
Notes
References
Index