Asia has shown the world what success in economic development looks like. From the amazing transformations of Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the other 'tigers' in the early 70s, to the more recent takeoffs of the People's Republic of China (PRC), India, and the leading economies in Southeast...

Public expenditure and public debt / Vito Tanzi -- The political economy of public expenditure / Alan Peacock -- Public employment and public expenditure / Richard Rose -- Public expenditure and the bureaucracy / Peter Jackson -- An Irish overview / Alan Dukes

"George Will nailed it when he said we are sleepwalking into a debt crisis. A Fiscal Cliff: New Perspectives on the U.S. Debt Crisis aims to be a key source of the ideas that will be considered once the already-declared crisis is taken seriously. The unsustainable, and still rapidly growing,...