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A Normative Theory
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Second Edition
By
Richard Tresch, Boston College, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Description
Featuring a general equilibrium framework that is both cohesive and versatile, the Second Edition of Public Finance: A Normative
Theory brings new and updated information to this classic text. Through its concentration on the microeconomic theory of the
public sector in the context of capitalist market economics it addresses the subjects traditionally at the heart of public sector economics,
including public good theory, theory of taxation, welfare analysis, externalities, tax incidence, cost benefit analysis, and fiscal federalism.
Its goal of providing a foundation, rather than attempting to present the most recent scholarship in detail, makes this Second
Edition both a valuable text and a resource for professionals.
Audience
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in courses in public finance and public economics.
Contents
Part I: Introduction: The Content and Methodology of Public Sector Theory
Introduction to Normative Public Sector Theory
A General Equilibrium
Model for Public Sector Analysis
First-Best and Second-Best Analysis and the Political Economy of Public Sector Economics
Part II: The
Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: First-Best Analysis
The Social Welfare Function in Policy Analysis
The Problem of Externalities:
An Overview
Consumption Externalities
Production Externalities
The US Anti-Pollution Policies: An Application of Externality Theory
The
Theory of Decreasing Cost Production
The First-Best Theory of Taxation
Applying First-Best Principles of Taxation: What to Tax and How
Part III: The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: Second-Best Analysis
Introduction to Second-Best Analysis
The Second-Best Theory
of Taxation in One-Consumer Economies with Linear Production Technology
The Second-Best Theory of Taxation with General Production Technologies
and Many Consumers
Taxation under Asymmetric Information
The Theory and Measurement of Tax Incidence
Expenditure Incidence and Economy-Wide
Incidence Studies
The Second-Best Theory of Public Expenditures--Overview
Transfer Payments and Private Information
Externalities in
a Second-Best Environment
Decreasing Costs and the Theory of the Second Best--the Boiteux Problem
General Production Rules in a Second-Best
Environment
Part IV: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Introduction--the Issues of Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Rate of Discount for Public Investments
Uncertainty and the Arrow-Lind Problem
Measurement Problems in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Distribution of Income
Common Pitfalls in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Part V: Fiscal Federalism
Optimal Federalism--Sorting the Functions of Government within the
Fiscal Hierarchy
Optimal Federalism--The Sorting of People within the Fiscal Hierarchy
The Role of Grants-in-Aid in a Federalist System
of Government
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 950 pages, publication date: MAY-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-699051-5
ISBN-10: 0-12-699051-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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