Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

Portada
Cambridge University Press, 2003 M07 28 - 766 páginas
This textbook systematically 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.

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MARKETS AND PROPERTY
1
11 A First Account
3
12 Property Rights and the Rule of Law
24
13 Life under Maximal Government
52
COLLECTIVE BENEFITS
61
21 Public Goods
63
22 Information and Public Goods
96
23 Public Finance for Public Goods
127
101 Health Insurance and Health Care
617
102 Education
630
103 Providing for Retirement
649
Why Views Can Differ
675
Supplements
681
1A The Efficiency of a Competitive Market
683
1B The Efficiency of a Competitive Economy
686
1C Why Choose Collective Property?
693

VOTING AND PUBLIC GOODS
159
31 Majority Voting and Public Goods
161
32 Political Competition and Public Spending
186
33 The Implementation of Collective Decisions by Government Bureaucracy
212
MARKET CORRECTIONS
227
41 Private Solutions for Externalities
229
42 Public Policy and Externalities
258
43 Prohibition of Markets
294
SOCIAL JUSTICE
309
51 Social Welfare and Social Insurance
311
52 Entitlements and Incentives
350
53 Social Justice without Government
373
POLITICS AND REDISTRIBUTION
391
61 Voting and Redistribution
393
62 Political Behavior and Public Policy
416
63 Public Policy and RentSeeking Behavior
447
TAXATION
461
71 Personal Taxation
463
72 What to Tax?
493
73 Refusal to Pay Taxes
515
USER PRICES
527
81 User Prices for Public Goods
529
82 User Pricing and Crowding
545
83 User Pricing and Natural Monopoly
552
HOW MUCH GOVERNMENT?
565
91 Multiple Government
567
92 Cooperation and Trust as a Substitute for Government
585
93 Growth of Government and Constitutional Restraint
600
HEALTH EDUCATION AND RETIREMENT
615
1D A LaborManaged Firm
694
2A Efficiency with Public and Private Goods
695
2B Group Size and Voluntary Collective Action
697
2C Income Distribution and Voluntary Collective Action
704
2D Sequential Voluntary Financing of Public Goods
708
2E Income Effects and the Excess Burden of Taxation
709
2F Empirical Measurement of the Excess Burden of Taxation
711
3A Political Competition with Many Candidates
712
4A The Tragedy of the Commons
713
4B An Impediment to Replicating Missing Markets
716
4C Protection of Dolphins
719
5A An Impossibility Theorem for Social Aggregation
720
56 Measurement of Income Inequality
721
5C Social Status and Private Charity
725
6B A Case of Extreme Corruption
727
6C Theoretical Models of Rent Seeking
728
6D Rents and Protectionist International Trade Policies
737
7A Measuring the Size of the Shadow Economy
739
7B Tax Evasion and the ValueAdded Tax
740
7C Tax Evasion through Expense Accounts
741
8B User Pricing and Prisons
742
8C Supplemental User Pricing
743
10A EmployerProvided Health Insurance
744
10C Costs of Medical Education and Training
745
10E Intertemporal Markets
746
Subject Index
749
Author Index
761
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