Treasury Management for Governments

Irwin, Timothy C.  Shining a Light on the Mysteries of State: The Origins of Fiscal Transparency in Western Europe.  IMF Working Paper WP/13/219.  (International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, Oct 2013)  http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13219.pdf

Theory of public finance and fiscal policy

Global financial history

U.S. financial history

Sobel, Robert.  Panic on Wall Street: a history of America's financial disasters.  (Beard Books, Washignton DC, 1999).  A history of twelve financial panics between 1792 and 1962.  One usually only thinks of the 1929 crash, but many other panics had equally painful results.

Other readings

Books and articles covering financial history, economics, risk, and human behavior.

Sunner: Borrowing Through the U.S. Treasury's "Fast Money Tree": The Need to Balance Austerity and Growth in the 21st Century, July 2012.  http://www.amazon.com/Borrowing-Through-U-S-Treasurys-Money-ebook/dp/B008S2DJYG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434409229&sr=8-1&keywords=Michael+Sunner&pebp=1434409230862&perid=BEE3037C5E014ED389E0 

Topics for discussion

Thinking about events, financial history, and practices.