Economics of the public sector /
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| Format: | Manuscript Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2015]
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2015] |
| Edition: | Fourth edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: Role and size of the public sector
- Defining public sector responsibilities
- Measuring public sector size
- Part two: Fundamentals of welfare economics
- Market efficiency
- Market failure
- Public goods and publicly provided private goods
- Externalities and the environment
- Efficiency and equity
- Part three: Public expenditure theory
- Public production of goods and services
- Public choice
- Part four: Public expenditure in practice
- Framework for analysis of expenditure policy
- Evaluating public expenditure
- Defense, research, and technology
- Health care
- Education
- Welfare programs and the redistribution of income
- Social insurance
- Part five: Taxation in theory
- Introduction to taxation
- Tax incidence
- Taxation and economic efficiency
- Optimal taxation
- Taxation of capital
- Part six: Taxation in practice
- The personal income tax
- The corporation income tax
- A student's guide to tax avoidance
- Reform of the tax system
- Part seven: Further issues
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Subnational taxes and expenditures
- Fiscal deficits and government debt