Public Finance

The last time global sovereign debt reached the level seen today was at the end of the Second World War, and this shaped a generation of economic p...

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the implications of rising public debt in India. It specifically investigates the implications of domestic...

How should policy analysts assess 'benefit validity' when behavioral anomalies appear relevant? David L. Weimer provides thoughtful answers through...

A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeedand those that dontFiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it c...

This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the worlds major tax havens. From global corporations such as Apple and...

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economie...

Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for internat...

In The Hypocritical Hegemon, Lukas Hakelberg takes a close look at how US domestic politics affects and determines the course of global tax policy....

A new edition of a comprehensive text, updated throughout, with new material on behavioral economics, international taxation, cost-benefit analysis...

In a recent study of 61 hospitals, it was found that they bought 21 different types of A4 paper, 652 different kinds of surgical gloves and 1751 di...

The euro was generally considered a success in its first decade. Nevertheless, the unanticipated financial crisis in the summer of 2007 has develop...

Popular author and seasoned economist Dr. David Hyman delivers a solid economics-oriented approach to public finance and public policy. The 11th ed...

Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ''Superb ... It is tremendous fun, tremendously told'' Tom Whipple, The Times''A fluid intellectual ...

The Impoundment Control Act (ICA), established a new framework for congressional notification and review of rescissions requested by a President. T...

Recently, the federal government has been recording the largest budget deficits, as a share of the economy, since the end of World War II. As a res...

Fiscal policy is an important factor influencing the growth performance of countries. However, compared to the large empirical literature on the ef...

Financial statement analysis involves an understanding of an entity by applying analytical techniques to its accounting numbers. However, financia...

Damage from hurricanes is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades because of the effects of climate change and coastal development...

The annual federal budget deficit is the amount by which federal government outlays exceed revenues for a given fiscal year, with surpluses generat...

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes th...

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes th...

This work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration and public policy. Written ...

Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling ...

On 1 March 2013, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the President ordered an across-the-board cancellation ...

For more than 100 years since its inception, the United States struggled through a variety of financial problems, crises, and would-be solutions...

The investments needed to deliver sustainable water and sanitation services, including the funds that are needed to operate and maintain the infras...

By 2040, over half of India's population will live in cities and towns. How many of them will live in slums? To prevent intense migration pressure ...

Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government policy. The pursuit of the pu...

Enacted on 1 August 2011, the Budget Control Act (BCA) as amended sets limits on defense spending between FY2012 and FY2021 that are playing a sign...

The Administration requested $523.9 billion to cover the FY2017 discretionary base budget of the Department of Defense (DOD). This request is $2.2 ...