Public Finance category: 2897 books
Policy and Choice
Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Traditional public finance provides a powerful framework for policy analysis, but it relies on a model of human behavior that the new science of behavioral economics increasingly calls into question. In Policy and Choice economists William Congdon, Jeffrey Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan argue that...
by Carl Shoup
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Broad in scope and carefully balanced in emphasis, this book is a major treatise on the theory and practice of public finance. It is unique in its presentation of a worldwide perspective and in its treatment of both the instruments of public finance and the goals, effects, and criteria of public finance...
Public Finance and Public Policy
A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This new edition restructures and updates the political economy view of the responsibilities and limitations of government. Public-choice and behavioural concepts are prominent. Gender issues are included. Technical concepts are explained from first principles. Economic theory is rigorously applied....
International Public Financial Management
Essentials of Public Sector Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Running public sector organizations requires specialist accounting and finance skills to overcome the unique challenges of the sector. Citizens rely on their governments to provide a wide range of public services from an inevitably limited budget and therefore the better that the public money is managed...
by Toshihiro Ihori
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This textbook equips instructors and students with an overview of the existing literature so that the latter can attain an overall understanding of macroeconomic and microeconomic public finance. The literature on public finance has grown dramatically with theoretical studies and empirical analysis,...
by Holley H. Ulbrich
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The events of the last decade have challenged the contemporary neo-classical synthesis in all branches of economics, but particularly public finance. The most notable feature of the 2nd edition of Public Finance in Theory and Practice is the infusion of behavioral economics throughout the text, with...
by Narayana R. Kocherlakota
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Since the 1970s, globalization has created an economic environment of interdependency between nations. Now, many countries in European and the MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) regions must grapple with the need to increase public revenue while maneuvering through a global “race-to-the-bottom”...
Development and Public Finance
Essays in Honour of Raja J Chelliah
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Development and Public Finance is a commemorative volume on late Dr Raja J. Chelliah, one of the foremost Public Finance experts of India. It is designed as a compendium of essays on contemporary issues of Public Finance and Development, focusing on the rapidly globalizing Indian economy. Well-known...
Public Finance
A Normative Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
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...
Modern Fiscal Issues
Essays in Honour of Carl S. Shoup
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The contributors to this work, all leading economists in their own right, are a few of the many colleagues, former students, and friends of Carl Shoup who have benefitted from his many years as a leading teacher and scholar of public finance. They dedicate this book to their mentor on the occasion...
The Politics of Public Fund Investing
How to Modify Wall Street to Fit Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Until now, there has never been a book to help public fund managers direct fixed-income portfolios while simultaneously balancing politics, or the need to preserve principal, with economics, or the need to optimize income. The Politics of Public Fund Investing approaches public fund management from...
The Public Good and the Brazilian State
Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, citizens thrive and crises are averted. When public...
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice n. 1-3/2012
Rivista quadrimestrale in lingua inglese sull'economia delle scelte pubbliche
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Contents Svetozar (Steve) Pejovich Socialism is Dead, Long Live Socialism Todd Sandler – Khusrav Gaibulloev Terrorism: Rationality, Externalities, and Policy Tom Means – Edward P. Stringham Unintended or intended consequences? The effect of below-market housing mandates on housing markets in California...