Public Sector Economics

ISBN-13: 9780230522237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 400 str.

Richard W. Tresch

Opis

A comprehensive and penetrating exposition of public sector economic theory in a clean and elegant format. This book provides a balanced and thoroughview of mainstream concepts with a strong theoretical focus throughout, and features a unique bank of up-to-date applications on the companion website to make the theory in the book come alive. Website: www.palgrave.com/economics/treschKey points: 1. Compact: At just under 500 pages, the book is well over a hundred pages shorter than its rivals.2. Economical: With a suggested price to students of $79.99, this textbook is 40% less expensive than the leading competitorsSeparate chapters on:

Applying the Social Welfare Function

Decreasing Cost Services

Public Assistance

Social Insurance

Taxes, Transfers, and Private Information

Three chapters on Fiscal Federalism

A unique epilogue that considers how Public Finance as a discipline may be affected by the rise of Behavioral Economics"

Spis treści

PART I: INTRODUCTION.- The Foundations of Public Sector Theory.- Market Failures.- The Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economic.- Appendix: Variable Factor Supplies.- PART II: PUBLIC EXPENDITURE THEORY AND POLICY.- The Social Welfare Function and the Quest for Distributive Justice.- Applying the Social Welfare Function.- Externalities: Theoretical Issues.- Externalities: Policy Considerations.- Nonexclusive Goods.- Decreasing Cost Services: the Natural Monopolies.- U.S. Transfer Payments: the Public Choice Perspective.- Practical Issues in Designing Transfers to the Poor.- Social Insurance: Social Security.- PART III: TAX THEORY AND POLICY .- The Pursuit of Equity in Taxation.- Equity Issues with the Federal Personal Income Tax.- Taxes and Inefficiency: the Excess Burden of Taxation .- Combining Equity and Efficiency in Taxation.- Taxes, Transfers, and Imperfect Information.- Tax Incidence: Theoretical Issues.- Tax Incidence: Applications.- PART IV: COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS.- Cost-Benefit Analysis.- PART V: FISCAL FEDERALISM.- The Assignment of Functions amongst Governments.- Efficiency and Equity Issues with Mobile Resources.- Grants-in-Aid.- Epilogue: A New Behavioral Public Sector Economics?.

O autorze

RICHARD W. TRESCH is Professor in the Department of Economics, Boston College, USA. He is author of Public Finance: A Normative Theory (Academic Press) and Principles of Economics (Thompson). His abilities as a teacher were recognized by the award of the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Blurb

Richard Tresch's Public Sector Economics is a new learning and teaching concept for undergraduate public finance courses. It is published in two complementary parts:
 
the book, which contains a unified treatment of the theory of the public sector along with selected examples.
 
the companion website (included in the price of the book), which features a large international Public Sector Example Bank, written and updated by Richard Tresch and tied to specific sections in the book.
 
This innovative solution to the challenge of conveying the fundamentals of such a wide-ranging field allows students the best of both worlds: a readable, concise, and penetrating account of public sector theory, along with an evolving set of up-to-date examples that makes the theory come alive.