Public Finance (3rd Ed.) A Normative Theory
Auteur : Tresch Richard W.
Public Finance remains the premier textbook on the normative theory of government policy, with the third edition propelling into the twenty-first century its examination of what government ought to be doing instead of what it is doing.
The welfare aspects of public economics receive extensively renewed examination in this third edition. With four new chapters and other significant revisions, it presents detailed and comprehensive coverage of theoretical literature, empirical work, environmental issues, social insurance, behavioral economics, and international tax issues. With increased emphasis on the European Union, it is rigid enough for use by PhDs while being accessible to students less well trained in math.
Part I: Introduction: The Content and Methodology of Public Sector Theory1. Introduction to Normative Public Sector Theory2. A General Equilibrium Model for Public Sector Analysis3. First-Best and Second-Best Analysis and the Political Economy of Public Sector Economics
Part II: The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation—First-Best Analysis4. The Social Welfare Function in Policy Analysis5. The Problem of Externalities--An Overview6. Consumption Externalities7. Production Externalities8. Global Warming: An Application of Externality Theory9. The Theory of Decreasing Cost Production10. The First-Best Theory of Taxation11. Applying First-Best Principles of Taxation—What to Tax and How
Part III: The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: Second-Best Analysis12. Introduction to Second-Best Analysis13. The Second-Best Theory of Taxation in One-Consumer Economies with Linear Production Technology14. The Second-Best Theory of Taxation with General Production Technologies and Many Consumers15. Taxation Under Asymmetric Information16. The Theory and Measurement of Tax Incidence17. Expenditure Incidence and Economy-Wide Incidence Studies18. The Second-Best Theory of Public Expenditures: Overview19. Transfer Payments and Private Information20. Social Insurance: Medical Care21. Social Insurance: Social Security22. Externalities in a Second-Best Environment23. Decreasing Costs and the Theory of the Second-Best—The Boiteux Problem24. General Production Rules in a Second-Best Environment25. Behavioral Public Sector Economics
Part IV: Fiscal Federalism and International Public Finance26. Optimal Federalism: Sorting the Functions of Government Within the Fiscal Hierarchy27. Optimal Federalism: The Sorting of People within the Fiscal Hierarchy28. The Role of Grants-in-Aid in a Federalist System of Governments29. International Public Finance
economics in 1973 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a teaching assistant
prior to joining Boston College. He joined the Boston College faculty in 1969, and during his
49-year-long career in the college, Dr. Tresch has served as the Chairman of the Department of
Economics, Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Currently, he is
Professor Emeritus of Economics at Boston College. In 1996, he was chosen as the Massachusetts
Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He was one
of 585 national entrants in the foundation’s U.S. Professors of the Year Program, which salutes
outstanding undergraduate instructors, with the award recognized as one of the most prestigious
honors to be bestowed on professors. Dr. Tresch, a member of the American Economic Association,
has served on the board of editors of the American Economic Review and contributed to the New
England Journal of Business and Economics and Public Finance. Moreover, he is the editor of a fourvolume
major reference work on public sector economics.
- Moves skillfully from explaining normative theory to applying it in mathematically compact and precise terms
- Adds new chapters on social insurance, medical care, social security pensions, behavioral public economics, and international public finance
- Includes new pedagogical supplements, including end-of-chapter questions and answers
- Emphasizes European examples
Date de parution : 10-2018
Ouvrage de 534 p.
21.4x27.6 cm
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Date de parution : 12-2014
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