Volatile states: institutions, policy, and the performance of American state economies

Champions of the state growth league --The end of state income convergence -- Volatile states: estimates of the risk-return trade-off -- Demise of the state sales tax -- Economic consequences of state tax policy -- Reliability of revenues from alternative tax instruments -- State budgets outgrow state incomes -- Fiscal uncertainty -- Political ideology and other drivers of state budget priorities -- Fresh perspectives on familiar problems.