A Study In Public Finance

Author : Harvey S. Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226726258
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in State and Local Public Finance written by Harvey S. Rosen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fiscal year 1981-82, state and local government spending actually exceeded federal nondefense spending. However, past research in public finance has focused on federal spending and policies and paid little attention to the economic problems of state and local governments. Studies in State and Local Public Finance goes far in correcting this omission. Developed from a National Bureau of Economic Research conference on state and local financing, the volume includes papers summarizing and extending recent research as well as commentaries. Covering a wide range of topics, the papers share an empirical orientation and a concern with policy issues. The first two papers look at the role of tax-exempt bonds in local public finance. Their findings suggest that tax policies significantly affect municipal borrowing practices and that financial advantage can be achieved under certain of these practices. Other papers address specific issues related to state and local tax policy: the impact of local taxes on location decisions; efficient road-use charges for trucks; and the relation of income and general sales tax systems over time. Examining issues related to United States federalism, the last paper focuses on the impact of federal grant aid to states. The research and findings these papers report make an important contribution to the study of local public finance and should be of particular interest to policymakers and those involved in private and public financing at the local, state, or federal level.

Author : Arthur Cecil Pigou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study in Public Finance written by Arthur Cecil Pigou and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262261618
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Finance and Public Choice written by James M. Buchanan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, based on a week-long symposium at the University of Munich's Center for Economic Studies, two leading scholars of governmental economics debate their divergent perspectives on the role of government and its fiscal functions. James M. Buchanan, who was influential in developing the research program in public choice, concentrates on the imperfections of the political process and stresses the need for rules to restrain governmental interference. Richard A. Musgrave, a founder of modern public finance, points to market failures and inequities that call for corrective public policies. They apply their differing economic and political philosophies to a variety of key issues. Each presentation is followed by a response and general discussion.

Author : David Hyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781408094426
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Finance written by David Hyman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M. Quigley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674004207
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Public Finance written by John M. Quigley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modern Public Finance, senior scholars in the field review and synthesize recent theoretical developments in important areas--optimal taxation, public sector dynamics, distribution theory, and club theory, to name a few--which challenge us to understand and improve public policy. Each chapter highlights original research by a recognized leader in the field, relates this work to cumulative developments, and frames important questions for further study.

Author : Narayana R. Kocherlakota
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400835275
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Dynamic Public Finance written by Narayana R. Kocherlakota and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 question either ignored people's uncertainty about their future productivities or imposed strong and unrealistic functional form restrictions on taxes. In response to these problems, the new dynamic public finance was developed to study the design of optimal taxes given only minimal restrictions on the set of possible tax instruments, and on the nature of shocks affecting people in the economy. In this book, Narayana Kocherlakota surveys and discusses this exciting new approach to public finance. An important book for advanced PhD courses in public finance and macroeconomics, The New Dynamic Public Finance provides a formal connection between the problem of dynamic optimal taxation and dynamic principal-agent contracting theory. This connection means that the properties of solutions to principal-agent problems can be used to determine the properties of optimal tax systems. The book shows that such optimal tax systems necessarily involve asset income taxes, which may depend in sophisticated ways on current and past labor incomes. It also addresses the implications of this new approach for qualitative properties of optimal monetary policy, optimal government debt policy, and optimal bequest taxes. In addition, the book describes computational methods for approximate calculation of optimal taxes, and discusses possible paths for future research.

Author : Richard Abel Musgrave
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Public Finance written by Richard Abel Musgrave and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1959 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Public Finance written by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Distri
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book Economics of Public Finance written by and published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri. This book was released on 1984 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard A. Musgrave
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349234265
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classics in the Theory of Public Finance written by Richard A. Musgrave and published by Springer. This book was released on 1958-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was prepared mainly for specialists on the assumption that it would provide the background to an important neglected field of discussion in public finance. Since it was first published in 1958, the theory of public goods and its implications for public policy have become incorporated in the main body of the economic analysis of public finance in the literature. A glance at the footnotes of some of the standard textbooks on public finance indicates that this assembly of articles has not been in vain. Probably the most influential part of this collection has been the papers concerned with the theory of public expenditure, which contains two closely related elements. The first is as a part of welfare economics: under what conditions can Pareto optimality be achieved in an economic system in which some goods supplied are indivisible? The other strand of thought is concerned with the positive theory of the public sector: how can economic analysis be used in order to explain how the size and composition of the budget is actually determined?