The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment Greece ISBN10: 0310220777

ISBN10: 0310220777

called 'The Unwanted Guest'

Author: Ansua Dutta

This monograph traces the development and notes the progress

ISBN13: 9781953349927

The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment Greece ISBN10: 0310220777This book is about public policy making in New York during the zenith of the great liberal experiment, from 1960, Mayor Robert Wagner's third term, through John V. Lindsay, Abraham Beame, and, finally, to Edward Koch and the inevitable return of fiscal conservatism. The bigger they come the harder they fall. When New York City fell and its intricate, often exotic, budget gimmickry came unstuck, they foundations of every other large city in America