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Public finance : a normative theory / Richard W. Tresch.

By: Tresch, Richard WMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2015Edition: 3rd edDescription: xvi, 517 p. ; illISBN: 9780124158344Subject(s): Public Finance | Business & EconomicsDDC classification: 336

Contents:

1. Introduction to normative public sector theory-- 2. A general equilibrium model for public sector analysis-- 3. First-best and second-best analyses and the political economy of public sector economics-- 4. The social welfare function in policy analysis-- 5. The problem of externalities-an overview-- 6. Consumption externalities-- 7. Production externalities-- 8. An application of externlity theory: global warming-- 9. The theory of decreasing cost production-- 10. The first-best theory of taxation and transfers-- 11. Applying first-best principles of taxation-what to tax and how-- 12. Introduction to second-best analysis-- 13. The second-best theory of taxation in one-consumer economies with linear production technology-- 14. The second-best theory of taxation with general production technologies and many consumers-- 15. Taxation under asymmetric information-- 16. The theory and measurement of tax incidence-- 17. Expenditure incidence and economy-wide incidence studies-- 18. The second-best theory of public expenditures: overview-- 19. Transfer payments and private information-- 20. Social insurance: medical care-- 21. Social insurance: social security-- 22. Externalities in a second-best environment-- 23. Decreasing costs and the theory of the second-best-the boiteux problem-- 24. General production rules in a second-best environment-- 25. Behavioral public sector economics-- 26. Optimal federalism: sorting the functions of Government within the fiscal hierarchy-- 27. Optimal federalism: the sorting of people within the fiscal hierarchy-- 28. The role of grants-in-aid in a federalist system of governments-- 29. International public finance. Appendix-- Index.

Summary: With four chapters and other significant revisions, this title presents detailed and comprehensive coverage of theoretical literature, empirical work, environmental issues, social insurance, behavioral economics, and international tax issues. It moves from explaining normative theory to applying it in mathematically compact and precise terms.

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Includes index.

1. Introduction to normative public sector theory--
2. A general equilibrium model for public sector analysis--
3. First-best and second-best analyses and the political economy of public sector economics--
4. The social welfare function in policy analysis--
5. The problem of externalities-an overview--
6. Consumption externalities--
7. Production externalities--
8. An application of externlity theory: global warming--
9. The theory of decreasing cost production--
10. The first-best theory of taxation and transfers--
11. Applying first-best principles of taxation-what to tax and how--
12. Introduction to second-best analysis--
13. The second-best theory of taxation in one-consumer economies with linear production technology--
14. The second-best theory of taxation with general production technologies and many consumers--
15. Taxation under asymmetric information--
16. The theory and measurement of tax incidence--
17. Expenditure incidence and economy-wide incidence studies--
18. The second-best theory of public expenditures: overview--
19. Transfer payments and private information--
20. Social insurance: medical care--
21. Social insurance: social security--
22. Externalities in a second-best environment--
23. Decreasing costs and the theory of the second-best-the boiteux problem--
24. General production rules in a second-best environment--
25. Behavioral public sector economics--
26. Optimal federalism: sorting the functions of Government within the fiscal hierarchy--
27. Optimal federalism: the sorting of people within the fiscal hierarchy--
28. The role of grants-in-aid in a federalist system of governments--
29. International public finance.
Appendix--
Index.

With four chapters and other significant revisions, this title presents detailed and comprehensive coverage of theoretical literature, empirical work, environmental issues, social insurance, behavioral economics, and international tax issues. It moves from explaining normative theory to applying it in mathematically compact and precise terms.

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