Readings in State and Local Public Finance

Dick Netzer has worked in urban public finance and urban economics as a researcher, teacher, public official, and consultant for more than forty years. He is the author of Economics of the Property Tax, Economics and Urban Problems, and The Subsidized Muse plus more than 200 articles and book chapters. Netzer, previously Dean of the School of Public Administration at New York University, is currently Senior Fellow at the Taub Urban Research Center at New York University.

Matthew P. Drennan has published papers on the economics and fiscal condition of New York City, New York State, and other states. He has written about the economics transformation of large cities with the rise of producer services and the decline of manufacturing. He is the author of Modeling Metropolitan Economies for Forecasting and Policy Analysis. Drennan is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University.