<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Modelling the US Federal Spending Process: Overview and Implications</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M.</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Dempster</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A.</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Wildavsky</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>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.</mods:abstract><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">1982</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Palgrave Macmillan UK</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Book Section</mods:genre></mods:mods>