Public finance and public policy
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Public finance and public policy
Worth Publishers, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (3rd block p. 1-13) and indexes
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In the past twenty years public finance has undergone a dramatic evolution, with a growing interest in the study of transfer programs, and social insurance. The field has moved from predominantly theoretical approaches to emphasis on high-quality empirical work, both in the traditional areas of transfer programs and social insurance. Jonathon Gruber's Public Finance is the first text to acknowledge those changes. Written with these developments in mind, it brings the realities of contemporary public finance to the classroom.
Table of Contents
PART I: BACKGROUND - Why Study Public Finance - Theoretical Tools of Public Finance - Empirical Tools of Public Finance - Tools of Budget Analysis - PART II: EXTERNALITIES AND PUBLIC GOODS - Externalities: Problems and Solutions - Externalities in Action: Environmental and Health Externalities - Public Goods: Problems and Solutions - Cost/Benefit Analysis - Implementing Public Goods: Political Economy and Public Choice - State and Local Government Expenditures - Public Goods in Action: Education - PART III: SOCIAL INSURANCE AND REDISTRIBUTION - Social Insurance - Social Security - Unemployment Insurance, Workers' Compensation and Disability Insurance - Health Insurance I: Health Economics and Private Health Insurance - Health Insurance II: Medicare and Medicaid - Income Distribution and Welfare - PART IV: TAXATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE - Taxation in the U.S. and Around the World - The Equity Implications of Taxation-Tax Incidence - Inefficiencies and Their Implications for Optimal Taxation - Taxes on Labor Supply - Taxation of Savings - Taxes on Risk Taking and Wealth - Issues of Corporate Taxation - Tax Reform
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