Microeconomics and the public economy : a defence of Leviathan

Author(s)

• Cullis, John G.
• Jones, Philip R.

Bibliographic Information

Microeconomics and the public economy : a defence of Leviathan

John G. Cullis and Philip R. Jones

B. Blackwell, 1987

Other Title

Micro-economics and the public economy

Microeconomics & the public economy

Note

Spine title: Microeconomics & the public economy

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

An examination of the debate over the public economy, scrutinizing such problems as constitutional bias, bureaucratic inefficiency and relative efficiency of the private sector and public economy firms. It raises theoretical and empirical issues about the free market and the state.

Table of Contents

• Market Failure - a Rationale for Government Intervention?
• Governmental Failure: a Rationale for Market Provision?
• Measuring Leviathan: the "size" of the Public Sector
• The Growth of the Public Sector
• Constitutional Bias and Fiscal Illusions
• Bureaucratic Inefficiency
• Private Responses to Public Expenditure Decisions
• Privatisation
• The Economic Consequences of Financing the Public Sector
• Freedom and the Public Sector.

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Details

• NCID: BA00976867
• ISBN:
  • 063115552X
• LCCN: 87005169
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 251 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HB172
  • DC19 : 338.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Expenditures, Public
  • LCSH : Finance, Public
  • LCSH : Microeconomics