| Edition |
3rd ed |
| Description |
xxvii,531 p.: ill.; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Market performance : possibilities and prescriptions -- Externalities -- Public goods -- Collective decision-making : searching for the "public interest" -- Rent-seeking, public provision and the "return to the market" -- Evaluation of public expenditure : cost--benefit analysis -- Tax theory : the basic concepts -- Tax evasion and the black economy -- Income (re)distribution -- Central government -- Public choice aspects of macroeconomic policies -- Fiscal federalism -- International issues in public finance -- Public sector failure and public expenditure growth -- Optimal taxation -- Towards a "new" public finance economics : experiments, behaviour, neuro-imaging and "individual failure". |
| Subject |
Finance, Public
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Social choice
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| Added Author |
Jones, Philip R., 1948-
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| Cover Title |
Public finance & public choice |
| ISBN |
9780199234783 |
|
0199234787 |
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