UID:
almafu_9960119341102883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 546 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-71058-8
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1-107-71319-6
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1-139-17094-5
Content:
This textbook provides a thorough treatment of all the central topics in public economics. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, it will also be invaluable to professional economists and to those teaching in the field. The book is entirely self-contained, giving all the equilibrium theory and welfare economics needed to understand the analyses. The author covers the Arrow-Debreu economy, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty which lay the foundations and emphasise the important role played by information. Within the competitive economy, he examines commodity taxation, income taxation and tax reform in a certain environment. He goes on to study the public economics of uncertainty, and then treats public goods, externalities, imperfect competition and tax evasion as departures from the standard competitive assumptions and looks at their implication for public economics derived.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Part I Foundations -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Public Economics -- 2 Motivation -- 3 Efficiency Versus Equity -- 4 Information -- 5 Methodology -- 6 Preview -- 7 Public-Sector Income and Expenditure -- 8 Notation -- 2 General equilibrium and welfare economics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Arrow-Debreu Economy -- 3 Welfare Properties of Competitive Equilibrium -- 4 A Critical Appraisal -- 5 Interpersonal Comparisons and Social Welfare -- 6 Summary -- 3 Topics in measurement -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Measurement of Income -- 3 Equivalence Scales -- 4 The Measurement of Inequality -- 5 The Measurement of Poverty -- 6 Conclusions -- Part II Analysis in the competitive economy -- 4 Commodity taxation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 The Ramsey Rule -- 4 Extension to Many Households -- 5 Numerical Results -- 6 Generalising the Production Technology -- 7 Untaxed Goods -- 8 Uniform Taxes -- 9 Production Efficiency -- 10 Summary -- 5 Income taxation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Mirrlees Economy -- 3 Characterisation of Optimal Tax Function -- 4 Numerical Results -- 5 Extensions and Omissions -- 6 Summary -- 6 Policy reform -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Reform Problem -- 3 Characterising Possibilities -- 4 Productive Efficiency and Maximising Reforms -- 5 The Inverse Optimum -- 6 Marginal Social Cost of Taxation -- 7 Political Constraints -- 8 Conclusions -- 7 Risk -- 1 Introduction -- 2 General Equilibrium with Risk -- 3 Private and Social Attitudes to Risk -- 4 Household Choice and Taxation -- 5 Labour Supply and Occupational Choice -- 6 Optimal Taxation -- 7 Conclusions -- 8 Corporate taxation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Taxation of the Firm -- 3 Tax Incidence -- 4 Taxation and Finance -- 5 Conclusions -- Part III Relaxing the assumptions.
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9 Public goods -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definitions -- 3 Optimal Provision -- 4 Personalised Prices and the Lindahl Equilibrium -- 5 Private Provision of Public Good -- 6 Finance by Taxation -- 7 Mechanism Design -- 8 Experimental Evidence and Market Data -- 9 Conclusions -- 10 Externalities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Externalities -- 3 Market Inefficiency -- 4 The Coase Theorem -- 5 Welfare-Improving Changes -- 6 Corrective Taxation -- 7 Tradable Licenses -- 8 Internalisation -- 9 Conclusions -- 11 Imperfect competition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Imperfect Competition and General Equllbrium -- 3 Imperfect Competition and Welfare -- 4 Commodity Taxation -- 5 Ad Valorem and Specific Taxes -- 6. Production Efficiency and the Taxation of Labour -- 7 Other Forms of Regulation -- 8 Conclusions -- 12 Tax evasion -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Extent of Tax Evasion -- 3 Evasion as a Decision with Risk -- 4 Optimal Auditing and Punishment -- 5 Tax Evasion and Labour Supply -- 6 Public Goods -- 7 Empirical Evidence -- 8 Honesty and Social Norms -- 9 Optimal Auditing with an Independent Revenue Service -- 10 Tax Evasion by Firms -- 11 Optimal Taxation with Evasion -- 12 Summary -- Part IV Introducing real time -- 13 Overlapping generations economies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overlapping Generations Exchange Economies -- 3 An Aggregate Production Economy -- 4 Conclusions -- 14 Social security -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fully Funded and Pay-As-You-Go -- 3 An Optimal Programme -- 4 Some Extensions -- 5 Determination and Justification -- 6 Lifetime Uncertainty -- 7 Conclusions -- 15 Debt and taxation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Effect of Debt -- 3 Optimisation of Debt and Lump-Sum -- 4 Debt Neutrality -- 5 Income and Interest Taxation -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-49769-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-49721-3
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139170949
