Modern public economics /

The new edition of Jha's popular text comes with a supporting website and builds on the strength of the previous edition by increasing the international coverage including global public goods and highlighting the issue of environmental taxation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jha, Raghbendra
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:Undetermined
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Routledge advanced texts in economics and finance.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A quick primer on consumer demand
  • Perfect competition and Pareto optimality
  • Forms of the social welfare function
  • External effects and the market mechanism
  • The theory of pure public goods
  • Topics in the theory of public goods
  • The effects of taxes on savings
  • Taxation and labor supply
  • The effects of taxes on investment behavior
  • Taxation and risk taking
  • The theory of tax incidence
  • Tax incidence in dynamic models
  • Some results in commodity taxation
  • Aspects of income taxation
  • Topics in the theory of taxation
  • Tax reform
  • Pricing in the public sector
  • International aspects of taxation
  • Tax incentives and corporate taxation
  • Global public goods
  • Cost-benefit analysis and randomized evaluation
  • Environmental taxation and emission trading sachemes
  • Issues in fiscal federalism
  • Grants and taxes in federal countries.