Public Finance Books

New and Published Books

1. Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in South and East Asia

   By Luigi Bernardi, Angela Fraschini, Parthasarathi Shome

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   This book examines the present status, recent tax reforms and planned tax policies in some South and East Asia countries since the 1990s. The evidence is presented in a user friendly manner, but at the same time uses technically sophisticated methods. The main countries studied are China, India,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Taxation and Economic Development (Routledge Revivals)

   Twelve Critical Studies

   By John F. J. Toye

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The tax system is one of the instruments said to be available to translate development policy objectives into practice. The wide-ranging papers collected together in this volume, first published in 1978, explore different aspects of the link between national development objectives and the tax...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships

   Edited by Piet de Vries, Etienne B. Yehoue

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and Institutions

   Edited by Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system. The volume makes these points through the exploration of several key questions: What kind...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
5. The Financial History of the Bank for International Settlements

   By Kazuhiko Yago

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), founded in 1930, works as the "Bank for Central Banks". The BIS is an international forum where central bankers and officials gather to cope with international financial issues, and a bank which invests the funds of the member countries. This...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. History and Financial Crisis

   Lessons from the 20th century

   Edited by Christopher Kobrak, Mira Wilkins

   One striking weaknesses of our financial architecture, which helped bring on and perhaps deepen the Panic of 2008, is an inadequate appreciation of the past. Information about how the system functioned and the reliability of organizations and institutional controls were drawn from a relatively...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Applied Health Economics

   2nd Edition

   By Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice, Teresa Bago d'Uva, Silvia Balia

   Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

   The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before. This second...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. Reforming the Governance of the Financial Sector

   Edited by David Mayes, Geoffrey Wood

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   Many financial institutions have in recent years failed – failed either completely, and gone into bankruptcy, or failed in the sense that they have not achieved what their owners or their customers expected them to deliver. This has had significant and adverse effects on customers, taxpayers,...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. Banking Systems in the Crisis

   The Faces of Liberal Capitalism

   Edited by Suzanne Konzelmann, Marc Fovargue-Davies

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability

   The 2008 financial crisis has severely shaken confidence in liberal economic theory and policy. However, the sharply divergent experiences of the six Anglo-Saxon ‘liberal market economies’ (LMEs) suggest that the reality is not so simple. This book traces the evolution of liberal capitalism, from...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Health Policy and the Public Interest

    By Lok-sang Ho

    This book is written with an acute awareness of the need for new insight to ensure (1) universal protection in basic healthcare; (2) providing choice; (3) efficient production and consumption of healthcare services; (4) financial sustainability of the healthcare system. Defining the public interest...

    Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge