Jay Eungha Ryu
Jay Eungha Ryu's The Public Budgeting and Finance Primer brings public finance down from abstract clouds by recognizing that behind any abstract formulation resides real people with differences in what they know and what they desire, and who must put together programs and practices that not only must be articulated theoretically but must also be managed and administered by actual people. Where modern public finance generally locates its material as a proper subset of economic theory, Ryu's text locates public finance as a multi-disciplinary field of study, centered on economics to be sure, but touching as well, and significantly so, on politics, public administration, and law. --Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University, USA