First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

B: International Economics II (Harwood Fundamentals of Applied Economics)

Business & Money

Hillman, Arye L.

Hodrick, Robert J.

Kemp, Murray C.

Wan, Henry Y

Economics

Taylor&Francis

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Political Economy of Protection (Harwood Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics)

Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Cambridge University Press

This book sets forth the basic issues involved in public finance and public policy. All issues investigated explore the choice between voluntary market decision to earn and spend income versus assignment of responsibility to governments to tax and spend. The ten specific areas covered are markets and property, collective benefits, voting on public speaking, market corrections, social justice, political processes and redistribution, taxation, user pricing, public policy for welfare issues, and the question of how much government is needed in the modern state.

This book is the second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy (2003). The second edition 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.

Public Finance and Public Policy

This new edition restructures and updates the political economy view of the responsibilities and limitations of government. Public-choice and behavioural concepts are prominent. Gender issues are included. Technical concepts are explained from first principles. Economic theory is rigorously applied. Excessive technicality is avoided. The book integrates traditional public finance topics - taxation, public goods, externalities, and income redistribution - with political self-interest, bureaucracy, voting, rent seeking, corruption, and the common-pool problem of public spending. Social justice is viewed as income equality, equality of opportunity, or the right to benefit from one's own effort. Public policies studied include the environment, education, health insurance, welfare payments and entitlements under moral hazard, unemployment insurance, paternalistic impositions, and defence and public safety. This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses that combine economic theory with a real-world perspective on the politics of public finance and public policy. A broad scope makes the book suitable for students in all countries.

Public Finance and Public Policy: A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

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B: International Economics II (Harwood Fundamentals of Applied Economics)

The Political Economy of Protection (Harwood Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics)

Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Public Finance and Public Policy: A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Public Finance and Public Policy