Public Finance

Unlock the secrets of government funding and economic growth with Laurel D. Malvern's definitive guide, Mastering Public Finance: Navigating Government Funding and Economic Development. This essential resource demystifies the complexities of public finance, offering a clear and comprehensive roadmap for students, policymakers, and practitioners.

Personal Finance in a Public World: How Technology, Social Media, and Ads Affect Your Money Decisions by Bob DePasquale gives you the tools to improve your financial situation, use technology to your benefit, and better manage your financial planning.

Collectively, people think and act in ways that are different from how they think and act as individuals. Understanding these differences, says William (Bill) Bonner, a longtime maverick observer of the financial world and the vagaries of the investing public, is vital to preserving your wealth and personal dignity. Now Bonner and co-author Lila Rajiva show groupthink at work in an improbable array of instances throughout history and reveal why swimming against the current pays.

Though best known for his primary authorship of the Federalist Papers, his death in a duel at the hands of Vice President Aaron Burr on the banks of the Hudson River and his star role in a 21st-century musical, it is often overlooked that Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in creating the key financial building blocks of the young United States of America. The first incumbent of the office of secretary of the Treasury on September 11, 1789, Hamilton submitted a series of financial reports many of which became the economic foundations on which the US was built.