Public Economics
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521497695, ISBN10: 0521497698
Paperback, 564 pages, 24.6 x 18.9 x 3.3 cm
Language: English
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.
Preface
Part I. Foundations
1. Introduction
2. General equilibrium and welfare economics
3. Topics in measurement
Part II. Analysis in the Competitive Economy
4. Commodity taxation
5. Income taxation
6. Policy reform
7. Risk
8. Corporate taxation
Part III. Relaxing the Assumptions
9. Public goods
10. Externalities
11. Imperfect competition
12. Tax evasion
Part IV. Introducing Real Time
13. Overlapping generations economies
14. Social security
15. Debt and taxation
References
Index.
'This is the most comprehensive up-to-date exposition of the modern theory of public economics ... A natural reference for any student or scholar in the field.' Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem