Alexander Kustermann
Konjunktursteuerung durch »Deficit Spending«?
Eine rechtshistorische Untersuchung zu den ideengeschichtlichen Ursprüngen des Stabilitätsgesetzes und der Haushaltsreform 1967-1969
[Controlling the Economy with »Deficit Spending«? A Legal-Historical Analysis of the Intellectual Origins of the Economic Stability and Growth Act and the Budget Reforms of 1967-1969.]
2020. XVI, 252 pages. Published in German.
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An economic crisis in the late 1960s saw German budgetary law subjected to wide reforms based very firmly on Keynesian theory. Alexander Kustermann examines just how and why the legislator chose this path as well as looking into the history of countercyclical fiscal policy in Germany.