Fiscal Administration by John Mikesell (2006, Hardcover)

I boought this text for my POL 573, Public Budget and Finance, class. It has served me quite well to learn about financing in the public sector. Mikesell writes from more of an economist's viewpoint, which I found to be a good thing. Sometimes he becomes a little too fixated on numbers, which can make the text boring, but that's only my opinion. I believe it is a great text for my class, which isn't really the most interesting subject in the world. Also, many of my classmates, and myself as well, have expressed trouble when working on some of the exercises following each chapter. They can be a little tough... Overall, I would say this is an average textbook.