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1. Government Performance Reports: Lessons and Best Practices from Ten Years of GPRA Reporting

   By Jerry Ellig, Maurice McTigue, Henry Wray

   August 2011 | 978-1-4398446-4-9 | Hardback (CRC Press)

2. Sports Finance and Management: Real Estate, Entertainment, and the Remaking of the Business

   By Jason Winfree, Mark S. Rosentraub

   August 2011 | 978-1-4398447-1-7 | Hardback (CRC Press)

3. Government Budgeting and Financial Management

   Edited by Gerald J. Miller

   August 2011 | 978-1-57444-753-8 | Hardback (CRC Press)

4. Fundamentals of Public Budgeting

   By Aman Khan

   Filling an important gap that currently exists in the literature on public budgeting, Fundamentals of Public Budgeting provides the basic foundations of capital budgeting in government. It presents various tools and techniques that are necessary to apply these foundations to practice...

   August 2011 | 978-1-4200465-7-1 | Hardback (CRC Press)

5. Cost-Benefit Analysis Cases and Materials

   By Euston Quah, Raymond Toh

   Cost-Benefit Analysis is the systematic and analytical comparing of benefits and costs when assessing the desirability of a project or programme. It is therefore a cornerstone of public finance and government decision-making. This book highlights the key concepts and principles of cost-benefit...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56226-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. New Models of Regional Innovation: Transversality

   By Philip Cooke

   Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60375-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Recession and Beyond: Local Authority Responses to the Downturn

   Edited by David Bailey, Caroline Chapain

   Due to their proximity to economic actors, local authorities are often at the forefront of dealing with the impacts of recession on people and places, and have been charged with powers to promote the well-being of their population in economic, social and environmental terms. With the shift from...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59034-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Financial and Actuarial Statistics: An Introduction, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

   By Dale S. Borowiak, Arnold F. Shapiro

   Presenting a unique interface between statistics and financial/actuarial topics, this second edition provides a solid background for students preparing for a career in actuarial science. It explores novel research areas and adds more problems, along with a new solutions section. This edition also...

   July 2011 | 978-1-4200858-0-8 | Hardback (Chapman & Hall)

9. Bubbles, Law and Financial Regulation

   By Erik F. Gerding

   This book aims to unpack the complex economic relationships between law, asset price bubbles and financial regulation. The failure to thoroughly understand these interactions has had severe consequences, as law has proven ill-equipped to prevent or mitigate financial crises caused by bubbles....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-77939-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism: Beneath the Surface of the Financial Industry

    Edited by Susan Long, Burkard Sievers

    Why is it that the seemingly rational world of economic behaviour, with its calculated models and predictions, at times goes horribly wrong? The recent global financial crisis and its aftermath have made obvious how limited and broadly inadequate economic models and theories are in coping with, not...

    June 2011 | 978-0-415-60031-6 | Hardback (Routledge)