Public finance and public choice : analytical perspectives /

Main Author: Cullis, John G.
Other Authors: Jones, Philip R.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Market performance : possibilities and prescriptions
  • Externalities
  • Public goods
  • Collective decision-making : searching for the "public interest"
  • Rent-seeking, public provision and the "return to the market"
  • Evaluation of public expenditure : cost
  • benefit analysis
  • Tax theory : the basic concepts
  • Tax evasion and the black economy
  • Income (re)distribution
  • Central government
  • Public choice aspects of macroeconomic policies
  • Fiscal federalism
  • International issues in public finance
  • Public sector failure and public expenditure growth
  • Optimal taxation
  • Towards a "new" public finance economics : experiments, behaviour, neuro-imaging and "individual failure"