Theme-Based Book Review: the Government Role in Development and Public Finance

This theme-based book review considers four recent titles related to governments? role in development and public finance: Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa, edited by Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Michael Addaney; Research Handbook on Public Financial Management, edited by Komla D. Dzigbede and W. Bartley Hildreth; Decisions, Preferences, and Heuristics: An Introduction to Economic Psychology and Behavioral Economics, by Pere Mir-Artigues; and China?s Economic Development: Implications for the World, by Cai Fang.