Challenging the neoliberal critique of deficit spending and public debt

该项目旨在通过考察其思想和政治历史以及重新审视反对意见来分析平衡预算的修辞。该项目的预期成果将包括对基于档案、文本和访谈数据分析的修辞学发展的见解。该项目的调查结果将在网上论坛上发表，在国家和国际政策界有广泛的读者。该项目有能力为政府赤字支出和公共债务的政策讨论提供见解和益处。

This project aims to analyse the rhetoric of balanced budgets by examining its intellectual and political history and revisiting counterarguments. Expected outcomes from the project will include insights into the development of rhetoric based on analysis of archival, textual and interview-based data . Findings from the project will be published in online fora with wide readership in national and international policy circles. The project has the capacity to provide insights into and benefits for policy discourse on government deficit-spending and public debt.