Public finance : a normative theory / Richard W. Tresch.
2002
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Title
Public finance : a normative theory / Richard W. Tresch.
Published
Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
HJ236 .T73 2002
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0126990514
Description
xxiii, 950 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)49552710
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
I
Introduction: The Content and Methodology of Public Sector Theory
1Introduction to Normative Public Sector Theory
2A General Equilibrium Model for Public Sector Analysis
3First-Best and Second-Best Analysis and the Political Economy of Public Sector Economics
II
The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation - First-Best Analysis
4The Social Welfare Function in Policy Analysis
5The Problem of Externalities - An Overview
6Consumption Externalities
7Production Externalities
8The U.S. Antipollution Policies: An Application of Externality Theory
9The Theory of Decreasing Cost Production
10The First-Best Theory of Taxation
11Applying First-Best Principles of Taxation - What to Tax and How
III
The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: Second-Best Analysis
12Introduction to Second-Best Analysis
13The Second-Best Theory of Taxation in One-Consumer Economies with Linear Production Technology
14The Second-Best Theory of Taxation with General Production Technologies and Many Consumers
15Taxation Under Asymmetric Information
16The Theory and Measurement of Tax Incidence
17Expenditure Incidence and Economy-Wide Incidence Studies
18The Second-Best Theory of Public Expenditures: Overview
19Transfer Payments and Private Information
20Externalities in a Second-Best Environment
21Decreasing Costs and the Theory of the Second-Best - The Boiteux Problem
22General Production Rules in a Second-Best Environment
IV
Cost-Benefit Analysis
23Introduction: The Issues of Cost-Benefit Analysis
24The Rate of Discount for Public Investments
25Uncertainty and the Arrow-Lind Theorem
26Measurement Problems in Cost-Benefit Analysis
27Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Distribution of Income
28Common Pitfalls in Cost-Benefit Analysis
V
Fiscal Federalism
29Optimal Federalism: Sorting the Functions of Government Within the Fiscal Hierarchy
30Optimal Federalism: The Sorting of People within the Fiscal Hierarchy
31The Role of Grants-In-Aid In a Federalist System of Governments
Index