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Edited By
Martin Feldstein, Harvard University, MA, USA
A.J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Handbooks in Economics,
Description
The Field of Public Economics has been changing rapidly in recent years, and the sixteen chapters contained in this Handbook survey many
of the new developments. As a field, Public Economics is defined by its objectives rather than its techniques and much of what is new
is the application of modern methods of economic theory and econometrics to problems that have been addressed by economists for over
two hundred years. More generally, the discussion of public finance issues also involves elements of political science, finance and
philosophy. These connections are evidence in several of the chapters that follow.
Public Economics is the positive and normative
study of government's effect on the economy. We attempt to explain why government behaves as it does, how its behavior influences the
behavior of private firms and households, and what the welfare effects of such changes in behavior are. Following Musgrave (1959) one
may imagine three purposes for government intervention in the economy: allocation, when market failure causes the private outcome
to be Pareto inefficient, distribution, when the private market outcome leaves some individuals with unacceptably low shares
in the fruits of the economy, and stabilization, when the private market outcome leaves some of the economy's resources underutilized.
The recent trend in economic research has tended to emphasize the character of stabilization problems as problems of allocation in the
labor market. The effects that government intervention can have on the allocation and distribution of an economy's resources are described
in terms of efficiency and incidence effects. These are the primary measures used to evaluate the welfare effects of government policy.
Contents
Part 1. Capital income taxation.
Taxation, risk taking and household portfolio behaviour (J.M. Poterba). Taxation and saving (B.D.
Bernheim, B. Douglas). Taxation and corporate financial policy (A. J. Auerbach). Tax policy and business investment (K.A.Hassett, R.G.
Hubbard).
Part 2. Theory of taxation.
Taxation and economic efficiency (A.J. Auerbach, J.R. Hines Jr.). Tax avoidance, evasion
and administration (J. Slemrod, S. Yitzhaki). Environmental taxation and regulation (A.L. Bovenburg, L.H. Goulder).
Part 3. Theory
of government.
Political economics and public finance (T.Persson, G.Tabellini). Economic analysis and the law (L. Kaplow, S Shavell).
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 674 pages, publication date: JAN-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-82314-4
ISBN-10: 0-444-82314-X
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND
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