ИПИ Библиотека

Our national leaders have yet to come up with a workable solution to the massive federal budget deficit. But as Stuart Butler observes, failure to reduce federal spending actually stems from a failure to understand the political dynamics of budget growth…
Dr. Butler proposes a series of practical measures for managing national assets more economically, and hence reducing the deficits, while still achieving public purpose.

The author presents a logical strategy for reducing federal spending by fostering attractive and feasible private-sector alternatives for those who currently depend on federally sponsored programs. Dr. Butler proposes a series of practical measures for managing national assets more economically, and hence reducing the deficits, while still achieving public purposes. Among his recommendations are: Selling public housing to those who now rent; selling, or even donating, federal wilderness lands to qualified environmental groups like the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society; turning over the postal service and other subsidized systems such as Amtrak to the private sector, eliminating the huge tax burden of operating these highly unprofitable services and improving efficiency virtually overnight; and the essence of privatizing is the notion of investing true ownership of an asset in a group of people other than "the nation."

Stuart M. Bulter

Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D.,  is Director of the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, one of the nation's largest and most influential public policy foundations. Prior to this position he was Vice-President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, where he planned and oversaw the Foundation's research and publications on all domestic issues. He has been at Heritage since 1979. 
Dr Butler has authored books and articles on a wide range of issues, including health care, welfare, privatization and urban policy. In his 30 years with Heritage, Stuart Butler has been widely recognized for his influence in shaping the policy debate and for his ability to work constructively with individuals of widely differing ideologies and backgrounds. During the Reagan Administration, he was included in the National Journal's list of the 150 individuals outside government who have the greatest influence on decisions in Washington. He was cited by National Journal as one of the "dozen key players" in the debate over how to deal with the uninsured. 
In the Fall of 2002, Dr Butler was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. A native of Britain, he was educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland. 

Education:

Ph.D. (1978) St. Andrews University in Scotland, American Economic History

M.A. (1971) St. Andrews University in Scotland, Economics and History

B.S. (1968) St. Andrews University in Scotland, Physics and Mathematics