%0 Book Section %A Dempster, M. %A Wildavsky, A. %B The Grants Economy and Collective Consumption %D 1982 %E Matthews, R.C.O. %E Stafford, G.B. %F iiasa:13954 %I Palgrave Macmillan UK %P 267-309 %R 10.1007/978-1-349-05377-3_13 %S International Economic Association Series %T Modelling the US Federal Spending Process: Overview and Implications %U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13954/ %X The purpose of this paper is to show how inflation is endemic to the budgetary process of the United States Federal Government. To do this we relate models of government expenditure to models of the economy, thus joining in theory what have in practice always been together. %Z Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association at Cambridge, England