Public Finance and Public Policy

Public Finance and Public Policy

Author: Jonathan Gruber

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 9780716786559

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Chapters include: "Income distribution and welfare programs", "State and local government expenditures" and "Health economics and private health insurance".


Public Finance

Public Finance

Author: Richard W. Tresch

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2002-05-08

Total Pages: 976

ISBN-13: 0126990514

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Featuring a general equilibrium framework that is both cohesive and versatile, the Second Edition of Public Finance: A Normative Theory brings new and updated information to this classic text. Through its concentration on the microeconomic theory of the public sector in the context of capitalist market economics it addresses the subjects traditionally at the heart of public sector economics, including public good theory, theory of taxation, welfare analysis, externalities, tax incidence, cost benefit analysis, and fiscal federalism. Its goal of providing a foundation, rather than attempting to present the most recent scholarship in detail, makes this Second Edition both a valuable text and a resource for professionals. * Second edition provides new and updated information * Focuses on the heart of public sector economics, including public expenditure theory and policy, tax theory and policy, cost benefit-analysis, and fiscal federalism * Features a cohesive and versatile general equilibrium framework


Public Finance and Public Policy

Public Finance and Public Policy

Author: Arye L. Hillman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-06

Total Pages: 861

ISBN-13: 1139475371

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The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. The present edition has been rewritten and restructured. Public choice and political economy concepts and political and bureaucratic principal-agent problems are introduced at the beginning for application to later topics. Fairness, envy, hyperbolic discounting, and other concepts of behavioral economics are integrated throughout. The consequences of asymmetric information and the tradeoff between efficiency and ex-post equality are recurring themes. Key themes investigated are markets and governments, institutions and governance, public goods, public finance for public goods, market corrections (externalities and paternalist public policies), voting, social justice, entitlements and equality of opportunity, choice of taxation, and the need for government. The purpose of the book is to provide an accessible introduction to the use of public finance and public policy to improve on market outcomes.


State and Local Public Finance

State and Local Public Finance

Author: Ronald C. Fisher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 1317513843

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Now in its 4th edition, State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of state and local government public finance practices and issues, using the basic tools of economics. For this new edition, there is a focus on the most important services provided in the state-local sector: education, health and welfare, public safety, and transportation. This textbook provides an examination and analysis of public finance practices and problems in a federal fiscal system, focusing on the fiscal behaviour and policies of state and local governments. The author presents detailed descriptions of significant institutions. Modern economic theory is applied to examine the way these institutions are used to produce and finance services, and to provide evaluation of alternative policies. Although the emphasis is on U.S. institutions and issues, much of the economic analysis can be applied to any federal system or to fiscal decentralization. This fully revised new edition sees updates throughout to data, topics, and applications. The Headlines and Applications sections reflect the most current policy issues affecting state and local governments. These include the effects of the Great Recession on state and local governments, changes in the tax treatment of internet purchases, the Affordable Care Act and implications for Medicaid spending by state governments, demographic changes and the implications for state-local finances, the implications of changes in automobile technology for transportation financing, and the potential for increased gambling activity. This text will continue to be invaluable reading for those who study public finance, local government finance, urban economics and public policy and public administration.


Principles of Public Finance

Principles of Public Finance

Author: Hugh Dalton Baron Dalton

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Substance of lectures on the theory of public finance delivered at the London School of Economics.


Public Finance: An International Perspective (Revised Edition)

Public Finance: An International Perspective (Revised Edition)

Author: Joshua E Greene

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2020-11-27

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9811209952

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Drawing from current examples from a variety of countries, Public Finance: An International Perspective addresses the main issues in contemporary public finance, including fiscal sustainability, state enterprises, and a variety of subsidies. There are relatively few textbooks on public finance, and many of them focus on the experience and issues facing the United States. This book sets out to address the critical issues from other countries, particularly those from the developing world or emerging market countries, who have received less attention in other texts. Written in a highly accessible manner, this book is a useful reference for students and practitioners alike.


Public Finance Fundamentals

Public Finance Fundamentals

Author: Kabelo Moeti

Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780702172946

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The general analytical skills of public finance are presented in this comprehensive manual through a building block approach to principles, procedures, and methodologies to give a clear picture of how governments manage their finances. Knowledge of public finance, including current policy and legislation, is easy to grasp from the chapter design of the book which aims to establish a consistent pedagogy for the user. Each new subject is introduced with figures, illustrations (anecdotal cartoons), and tables.


Classics in the Theory of Public Finance

Classics in the Theory of Public Finance

Author: Richard A. Musgrave

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1958-01-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1349234265

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This book was prepared mainly for specialists on the assumption that it would provide the background to an important neglected field of discussion in public finance. Since it was first published in 1958, the theory of public goods and its implications for public policy have become incorporated in the main body of the economic analysis of public finance in the literature. A glance at the footnotes of some of the standard textbooks on public finance indicates that this assembly of articles has not been in vain. Probably the most influential part of this collection has been the papers concerned with the theory of public expenditure, which contains two closely related elements. The first is as a part of welfare economics: under what conditions can Pareto optimality be achieved in an economic system in which some goods supplied are indivisible? The other strand of thought is concerned with the positive theory of the public sector: how can economic analysis be used in order to explain how the size and composition of the budget is actually determined?