Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance: Economic And Political Perspectives
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 10/15/2014
EAN 9781107636897, ISBN10: 1107636892
Paperback, 368 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Although coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives, economists have not offered an integrated analysis of its role in the public economy. The essays in this book focus on coercion arising from the operation of the fiscal system, a major part of the public sector. Collective choices on fiscal matters emerge from and have all the essential characteristics of social interaction, including the necessity to force unwanted actions on some citizens. This was recognized in an older tradition in public finance which can still serve as a starting point for modern work. The contributors to the volume recognize this tradition, but add to it by using contemporary frameworks to study a set of related issues concerning fiscal coercion and economic welfare. These issues range from the compatibility of an open access society with the original Wicksellian vision to the productivity of coercion in experimental games.
1. Coercion, welfare, and the study of public finance Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley L. Winer
Part I. Violence, Structured Anarchy, and the State
2. The constitution of coercion
Wicksell, violence, and the ordering of society John J. Wallis
3. Proprietary public finance
on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy Stergios Skaperdas
Part II. Voluntary and Coercive Transactions in Welfare Analysis
4. Coercion, taxation, and voluntary association Roger D. Congleton
5. Kaldor-Hicks coercion, Coasian bargaining, and the state Michael C. Munger
Part III. Coercion in Public Sector Economics
Theory and Application
6. Non-coercion, efficiency and incentive compatibility in public goods John O. Ledyard
7. Social welfare and coercion in public finance Stanley L. Winer, George Tridimas and Walter Hettich
8. Lindahl fiscal incidence and the measurement of coercion Saloua Sehili and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
9. Fiscal coercion in federal systems, with special attention to highly divided societies Giorgio Brosio
Part IV. Coercion in the Laboratory
10. Cooperating to resist coercion
an experimental study Lucy F. Ackert, Ann B. Gillette and Mark Rider
11. Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods Elena Cettolin and Arno Riedl.