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Subject(s)

• Finance, Public [Browse]
• Fiscal policy [Browse]
• Public welfare—Finance [Browse]
• Taxation [Browse]
• Finance, Public—Problems, exercises, etc [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Machine derived contents note: PART I Introduction and Background
• 1 Why Study Public Finance? 1
• 2 Theoretical Tools of Public Finance 23
• Appendix: The Mathematics of Utility Maximization 57
• 3 Empirical Tools of Public Finance 59
• Appendix: Cross-Sectional Regression Analysis. 83
• 4 Tools of Budget Analysis 86
• PART II Externalities and Public Goods
• 5 Externalities: Problems and Solutions 115
• 6 Externalities in Action: Environmental and Health Externalities 144
• 7 Public Goods 169
• Appendix: The Mathematics of Public Goods Provision 190
• 8 Cost-Benefit Analysis 193
• 9 Political Economy 215
• 10 State and Local Government Expenditures 247
• 11 Education 273
• PART III Social Insurance and Redistribution
• 12 Social Insurance: The New Function of Government 301
• Appendix: Mathematical Models of Expected Utility 328
• 13 Social Security 331
• 14 Unemployment Insurance, Disability Insurance, and Workers' Compensation . 365
• Appendix: Advanced Quasi-Experimental Analysis 390
• 15 Health Insurance I: Health Economics and Private Health Insurance 392
• 16 Health Insurance II: Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Care Reform 421
• 17 Income Distribution and Welfare Programs. 452
• PART IV Taxation in Theory and Practice
• 18 Taxation in the United States and Around the World 485
• 19 The Equity Implications of Taxation: Tax Incidence 517
• Appendix: The Mathematics of Tax Incidence 545
• 20 Tax Inefficiencies and Their Implications for Optimal Taxation 547
• Appendix: The Mathematics of Optimal Taxation 580
• 21 Taxes on Labor Supply 585
• 22 Taxes on Savings 607
• 23 Taxes on Risk Taking and Wealth 633
• 24 Corporate Taxation 657
• 25 Fundamental Tax Reform 689
• Glossary G-1 Name Index NI-1
• References R-1 Subject Index SI-1.

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ISBN

• 0716766310 ((hbk.))
• 9780716766315 ((hbk.))
• 9780716799054 ((hbk.))
• 0716799057 ((hbk.))

LCCN

2006937926

OCLC

82145321

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