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Choate, Pat, and Walter, Susan.America in Ruins: Beyond the Public Works Pork Barrel. Washington, D.C.: The Council of State Planning Agencies, 1981.
Devoy, Robert, and Wise, Harold.The Capital Budget. Washington, D.C.: The Council of State Planning Agencies, 1979.
U.S. Department of Congress.A Study of Public Works. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.
U.S. General Accounting Office.Federal Capital Budgeting: A Collection of Haphazard Practices. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981.
Vaughan, Roger J.Public Works as a Countercyclical Device: A Review of the Issues. Santa Monica, California: The Rand Corporation, 1976.
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Pat Choate is the senior policy analyst for economics at TRW, Inc. He has held a wide array of management and policy positions in federal and state governments, including director of economic research for the Economic Development Administration. He is the author of As Time Goes By: The Costs and Consequences of Delayand co-author of America in Ruins: Beyond the Public Works Pork Barreland Being Number One: Rebuilding the U.S. Economy.
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Choate, P. New federalism and old facilities. Society 19, 66–70 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694891
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