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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 renewed examination in this third edition. With four new chapters and other significant revisions, it presents detailed and comprehensive coverage of theoretical literature, empirical work, environmental issues, social insurance, behavioral economics, and international tax issues. With increased emph.
Front Cover; Contents; Chapter 12 -- Introduction to Second-Best Analysis; Chapter 13 -- The Second-Best Theory of Taxation in One-Consumer Economies with Linear Production Technology; GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE THEORY: PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS; THE THEORY OF TAXATION; THE THEORY OF PUBLIC CHOICE; BEHAVIORAL PUBLIC FINANCE; SUMMARY; A BASELINE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; FIRST-BEST INSIGHTS; MAXIMIZING SOCIAL WELFARE; REFERENCES; SECOND-BEST ANALYSIS; CONCLUSION; SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME: THE ATKINSON FRAMEWORK; THE CONDENSED MODEL FOR PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIES
POLICY-RELEVANT EXTERNALITIESTHE SECOND-BEST ALLOCATION OF SAMUELSONIAN NONEXCLUSIVE GOODS; THE BOITEUX PROBLEM: THE MULTIPRODUCT DECREASING-COST FIRM; REFERENCES; HOW BAD CAN EXTERNALITIES BE?; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM PRICE MODELS; THE EXISTENCE OF AT LEAST ONE PURE PRIVATE GOOD; NONEXCLUSIVE GOODS-THE SAMUELSON MODEL; SUBSTITUTIONS AMONG TAXES: IMPLICATIONS FOR WELFARE LOSS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 -- Production Externalities; DEFENSIVE ANTIPOLLUTION STRATEGIES; PREVIEW OF PART III; SAMUELSONIAN NONEXCLUSIVE GOODS; SIMILARITIES BETWEEN FIRST-BEST AND SECOND-BEST ANALYSES; LONG-LIVED EXTERNALITIES
DECREASING COST IN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSISChapter 10 -- The First-Best Theory of Taxation and Transfers; Chapter 17 -- Expenditure Incidence and Economy-Wide Incidence Studies; REFERENCES; OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; DESIGNING BROAD-BASED TAXES: THE ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES; A ONE-CONSUMER ECONOMY WITH GENERAL TECHNOLOGY; HORIZONTAL EQUITY; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES; A BRIEF HISTORY OF SECOND-BEST THEORY; THE OPTIMAL PATTERN OF COMMODITY TAXES; MANY-PERSON ECONOMY WITH GENERAL TECHNOLOGY; REFERENCES; REFERENCES; LUMP-SUM REDISTRIBUTIONS AND PRIVATE INFORMATION
CONCLUDING REMARKSMETHODOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN THE MEASUREMENT OF TAX INCIDENCE; MEASURING TAX INCIDENCE: A MANY-CONSUMER ECONOMY; THE INCIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT TRANSFER PAYMENTS; ECONOMY-WIDE INCIDENCE STUDIES; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS OF TAX INCIDENCE; APPENDIX: RETURNS TO SCALE, HOMOGENEITY, AND DECREASING COST; PRIVATE INFORMATION AND IN-KIND TRANSFERS; THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF SOCIAL SECURITY; FIXED COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING SITES: ADDING THE HOUSING MARKET; REFERENCES; LUMP-SUM REDISTRIBUTIONS AND PUBLIC SECTOR THEORY; THE DEMAND FOR INSURANCE; WITH INSURANCE; REFERENCES
PRIVATE OR ASYMMETRIC INFORMATIONTHE COMPETITIVE OUTCOME; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; REFERENCES; THE U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM; CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS; THE BEHAVIORAL ANOMALIES; Chapter 27 -- Optimal Federalism: The Sorting of People within the Fiscal Hierarchy; THE MODELING DIMENSIONS; ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE; MAINSTREAM REACTIONS; REFERENCES; PUBLIC CHOICE AND PARETO-OPTIMAL REDISTRIBUTION; OPTIMAL FEDERALISM AND GRANTS-IN-AID: NORMATIVE ANALYSIS; Chapter 29 -- International Public Finance; THE TAXATION OF MOBILE CAPITAL; THE INTENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE MARGINS
Includes bibliographical references and index.