The economist's view of the world : government, markets, and public policy
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The economist's view of the world : government, markets, and public policy
Cambridge University Press, 1985
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Bibliography: p. [223]-307
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explains and assesses the ways in which micro, welfare and benefit-cost economists view the world of public policy. In general terms, microeconomic concepts and models can be seen to appear regularly in the work of political scientists, sociologists and psychologists. As a consequence, these and related concepts and models have now had sufficient time to influence strongly and to extend the range of policy options available to government departments. The central focus of this book is the 'cross-over' from economic modelling to policy implementation, which remains obscure and uncertain. The author outlines the importance of a wider knowledge of microeconomics for improving the effects and orientation of public policy. He also provides a critique of some basic economic assumptions, notably the 'consumer sovereignty principle'. Within this context the reader is in a better position to understand the 'marvellous insights and troubling blindnesses' of economists where often what is controversial politically is not so controversial among economists.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Useful Concepts: 2. Opportunity cost
- 3. Marginalism
- 4. Economic incentives
- Part II. Government and Markets, Efficiency and Equity: 5. Government and the economy
- 6. Economists and equity
- 7. Externalities and the government agenda
- 8. Benefit - cost analysis
- Part III. The Limits of Economics: 9. The economist's consumer and individual well-being
- 10. A second look at externalities
- 11. Representatives, deliberation, and political leadership
- 12. Conclusion
- Notes
- name index
- Subject index.
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