Cuốn sách này giới thiệu một số nhà kinh tế học nổi tiếng mô tả những nguy cơ mà nền kinh tế phải đối mặt trong cuộc Đại suy thoái và các chính sách—một số thành công, một số không thành công—đã được thực hiện và lý do tại sao

Trọng tâm của cuốn sách này là sử dụng các phương pháp nghiên cứu định lượng để kiểm tra các giả thuyết và xây dựng lý thuyết trong khoa học chính trị, chính sách công và hành chính công.

"In his usual rigorous but readable style, Evan Ringquist and co-author Mary Anderson have produced a tour-de-force on the topic of meta-analysis in public policy and management research. Meta-analysis is badly needed in the all-too-common situation when researchers have low confidence in summarizing the overall results of dozens of studies on the effectiveness of some policy. This book has a nice combination of conceptual overview, methodological details, and applications that will make it possible for researchers to conduct their own meta-analysis. It is tempting to require all graduate students to write a meta-analysis as a chapter in their dissertation, or include meta-analysis as a standard offering in the research methods curriculum of social science graduate programs. The more people that adopt Ringquist and Anderson's approach, the less resources will be wasted on conducting studies that do not contribute to cumulative scientific knowledge

Effective Implementation in Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management presents an instrumental approach to implementation analysis

In the past twenty years, the field of public finance has undergone a dramatic evolution, with a growing interest in the study of transfer programs and social insurance. The field has also moved from predominantly theoretic approaches to putting more emphasis on high-quality empirical work, both in the traditional areas of tax and direct spending and in the newer areas of transfer programs and social insurance. Jonathan Gruber's Public Finance and Public Policy is the first text to acknowledge those changes. Written specifically with those developments in mind, it brings the realities of contemporary public finance to the classroom in ways no other text can match.