Public finance and public choice
Title:
Public finance and public choice
Author:
Cullis, John G.
ISBN:
9780198775799
9780198775805
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 422 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
1. Market possibilities and prescriptions -- 2. Evaluating public finance policy: consumer surplus, welfare criteria and market failure -- 3. Public goods -- 4. Collective decision-making; searching for the 'public interest' -- 5. Rent-seeking, public provision and the 'return to the market' -- 6. Evaluation of public expenditure: cost-benefit analysis -- 7. Tax theory: the basic concepts -- 8. Tax evasion and the black economy -- 9. Income (re)distribution -- 10. Central government -- 11. Public choice aspects of macroeconomic policies -- 12. Local government -- 13. International issues in public finance -- 14. Public sector failure and public expenditure growth -- 15. 'Normative' optimal taxation -- 16. 'Positive' optimal taxation.
Abstract:
Cullis and Jones examine the controversies that surround public sector economics. They analyse the ways in which governments tax and spend to determine how efficient or inefficient such policies are.
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