The Citizen's Library of Economics, Politics and Sociology

New Series

Edited by RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D., LL.D.

Professor of Political Economy in the University of Wisconsin.

BUDGET MAKING IN A
DEMOCRACY

THE CITIZEN'S LIBRARY OF ECONOMICS,

POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY

EDITED BY

RICHARD T. ELY, PH.D., LL.D.

Professor of Political Economy in the University of Wisconsin

NEW SERIES

THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT. By Benjamin P. DeWitt, M.A., LL.B.

THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. By Charles A. Ellwood, Ph.D.

THE WEALTH AND INCOME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES. By Willford I. King, Ph.D.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY. By
Richard T. Ely, Ph.D., LL.D.; Ralph H. Hess,
Ph.D.; Charles K. Leith, Ph.D.; Thomas Nixon
Carver, Ph.D., LL.D.

THE WORLD WAR AND LEADERSHIP IN
A DE-
MOCRACY. By Richard T. Ely, Ph.D., LL.D.

BUDGET MAKING IN A DEMOCRACY. By Major
Edward A. Fitzpatrick.

BUDGET MAKING IN A

DEMOCRACY

A NEW VIEW OF THE BUDGET

BY

EDWARD A. FITZPATRICK, PH.D.

Draft Administrator of Wisconsin.

Director of the Society, for the Promotion of
Training for Public Service

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1918

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BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published, October, 1918