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1 - Why Free Information?
from Part I - FOIA And Democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
Summary
In the late eighteenth century, on the eve of the French Revolution, a Swiss-born banker by the name of Jacques Necker was serving a short-lived appointment as the French Director-General of Finance. In that role, Necker advocated balancing the government’s ordinary budget as a means of increasing public confidence, and using debt – secured at a lower interest rate as a result of the balanced budget – to finance extraordinary circumstances, namely, at the time, the French involvement in the American Revolutionary War.1
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- Saving the Freedom of Information Act , pp. 11 - 31Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021