Public economics : selected papers by William Vickrey /
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Cambridge :
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1994.
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Table of Contents:
- William Vickrey / Jacques Dreze and Richard Arnott
- Pt. I. SocialChoice and Allocation Mechanisms. 1. Measuring Marginal Utility byReactions to Risk. 2. Utility, Strategy, and Social Decision Rules. 3.Counterspeculation, Auctions and Competitive Sealed Tenders. 4.Auctions and Bidding Games
- Pt. II. Taxation. 5. Averaging of Incomefor Income Tax Purposes. 6. Cumulative Averaging after Thirty Years. 7.An Integrated Successions Tax. 8. Expenditure, Capital Gains, and theBasis of Progressive Taxation. 9. The Problem of Progression
- Pt.III. Marginal-Cost Pricing. 10. Marginal- and Average-Cost Pricing. 11.Some Objections to Marginal-Cost Pricing. 12. Responsive Pricing ofPublic Utility Services. 13. Airline Overbooking: Some FurtherSolutions
- Pt. IV. Pricing Urban Transportation. 14. A Proposal forRevising New York's Subway Fare Structure. 15. Pricing in Urban andSuburban Transport. 16. Congestion Theory and Transport Investment
- Pt. V. Urban Economics. 17. The City as a Firm.