{"product_id":"public-net-worth-accounting-government-democracy-hardcover","title":"Public Net Worth: Accounting - Government - Democracy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIan Ball\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWillem Buiter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Crompton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems - from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war. Funding this activity, and managing the required finances sustainably, is difficult - and getting more so. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut governments don't provide - or use - basic financial information that every business is required to maintain. They ignore the value of public assets and most liabilities. This leads to inefficiency and bad decision-making and piles up problems for the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernments need to create balance sheets that properly reflect assets and liabilities, and to understand their future obligations and revenue prospects. Net Worth - both today and for the future - should be \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e measure of financial strength and success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly if this information is put at the centre of government financial decision-making can the present challenges to public finances around the world be addressed effectively, and in a way that is fair to future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe good news is that there are ways to deal with these problems and make government finances more resilient and fairer to future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe facts, and the solutions, are non-partisan, and so is this book. Responsible leaders of any political persuasion need to understand the issues and the tools that can enable them to deliver policy within these constraints. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important book...is a call for sensible change. It should be answered. --Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems - from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war. Funding this activity, and managing the required fi nances sustainably, is diffi cult - and getting more so. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut governments don't provide - or use - basic fi nancial information that every business is required to maintain. They ignore the value of public assets and most liabilities. This leads to ineffi ciency and bad decision-making and piles up problems for the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernments need to create balance sheets that properly refl ect assets and liabilities, and to understand their future obligations and revenue prospects. Net Worth - both today and for the future - should be the measure of fi nancial strength and success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly if this information is put at the centre of government fi nancial decision-making can the present challenges to public fi nances around the world be addressed effectively, and in a way that is fair to future generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe good news is that there are ways to deal with these problems and make government fi nances more resilient and fairer to future generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe facts, and the solutions, are non-partisan, and so is this book. Responsible leaders of any political persuasion need to understand the issues and the tools that can enable them to deliver policy within these constraints. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Ball\u003c\/b\u003e a principal architect of the New Zealand Government's fi nancial management reforms, initiator of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards and CEO of the International Federation of Accountants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWillem Buiter\u003c\/b\u003e former Chief Economist at Citigroup and EBRD, professor of economics atthe LSE, Cambridge and Yale, and an original member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Crompton\u003c\/b\u003e former investment banker with Morgan Stanley and HSBC in London, New York, and Hong Kong, as well as a Senior Corporate Finance Advisor at the HMT.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDag Detter\u003c\/b\u003e Investment advisor to governments led the comprehensive restructuring of Sweden's national portfolio of commercial assets and author of 'The Public Wealth of Nations'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacob Soll\u003c\/b\u003e Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting at the University of Southern California and the author of The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Ball\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan is an Adjunct Professor at the Wellington School of Business and Government at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He served as the Director of Financial Management Policy and Central Financial Controller at the New Zealand Treasury. He is credited with being the principal architect of the New Zealand Government's financial management reform process, leading to the passage of the Public Finance Act 1989. This made New Zealand the first government to introduce modern accrual accounting and integrate that with the budget and appropriation processes. He also initiated and lead the development of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) while Chair of the International Federation of Accountant's Public Sector Committee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWillem Buiter\u003c\/p\u003eCurrently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the Global Chief Economist at Citigroup, Chief Economist at the EBRD and an original member ofthe Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. He was the Juan T. Trippe Professor of International Economics at Yale University. He held academic appointments at the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, the University of Bristol, and Princeton University. He is the author of 78 refereed articles in professional journals and seven books.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Crompton\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn began his career as a civil servant in HM Treasury in the mid-1980s before joining Morgan Stanley, where he worked as an investment banker in London, New York, and Hong Kong. In 2005 - 07 he was seconded back to HMT as its Senior Corporate Finance Advisor, and from 2008 - 2010 was Head of Market Investments at UKFI, responsible for the government's investments in Lloyds Banking Group and RBS (now NatWest). More recently, he worked for HSBC for several years and is now a non-executive director, adviser and fintech investor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDag Detter\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDag advises private and public sector clients across the world on the unlocking of value from public assets. He led the comprehensive restructuring of Sweden's USD70bn national portfolio of commercial assets, the first attempt by a European government to systematically address the ownership and management of government enterprises and real estate. This led to a value increase of the portfolio twice that of the local stock market and helped boost economic growth and fiscal space. He is the author of 'The Public Wealth of Nations' - The Economist and Financial Times' best book of the year and 'The Public Wealth of Cities'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacob Soll\u003c\/p\u003eJacob Soll is a University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting at the University of Southern California and has taught at Princeton, Rutgers, and Cambridge Universities. The winner of many prestigious prizes, including a MacArthur \"Genius\" Grant, Soll's work examines the mechanics of politics, statecraft, and economics by dissecting how modern states and political systems succeed and fail. He is the author of several books, including his best-selling The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations (2014), which presents a sweeping history of accounting and politics, drawing on a wealth of examples from over a millennium of human history to reveal how accounting can used to both build kingdoms, empires and entire civilisations, but also to undermine them. 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