Public Finance In Democratic Process

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807841907
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Finance in Democratic Process written by James M. Buchanan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in economics, James Buchanan has won international recognition for his pioneering role in the development of public-choice theory. Among his works that the prize committee specifically cited was Public Finance in Democratic Process, which first appeared in 1967. As James C. Miller, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, notes in his foreword, "This book is perhaps the best compact exposition of Buchanan's theory of public choice."

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Finance in Democratic Process written by James M. Buchanan and published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of public finance, as traditionally developed, have analyzed the effects of fiscal institutions on the market-choice behavior of individuals and firms, but this book takes a different approach. It analyzes the effects of fiscal institutions on the political-choice behavior of individuals as they participate variously in the decision-making processes of democracies. What effect will the form of a new tax have on individuals' attitudes toward more or less public spending? To what extent does the private sector--public sector mix depend on the way in which tax payments are made? How do the various taxes affect the fiscal consciousness of individual citizens? These are questions that have been ignored for the most part. They are, nonetheless, important and worthy of examination. This book is an attempt to provide some provisional answers. By the use of simplified models of existing tax institutions, Buchanan predicts the effects that these exert on individual behavior in the area of political choice. The relative effects of direct and indirect taxes, the "old tax--new tax" distinction, the effects of fiscal earmarking, the effects of unbalanced budgets -- these are a few of the topics examined. Before these questions can be fully answered, research must be conducted to find out just how much individuals know about the taxes they pay and the benefits they receive. Comparatively little research of this kind has been completed, but the author devotes a chapter to a careful review of the present state of this sort of research. Individuals' choice among alternative fiscal institutions is examined in the second part of the book. If given the opportunity, how would the individual choose to pay his or her taxes? Progressive income taxes, excise taxes, and public debt are analyzed in terms of this question. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this imaginative study will be of interest to both economists and political scientists.

Author : Randall G. Holcombe
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Finance and the Political Process written by Randall G. Holcombe and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holcombe presents theoretical models, melds theory and empirical work, and juxtaposes economics and political science. Further, he provides insights into such concepts as agenda control, points out the advantages of incumbency, explains government as a natural monopoly, establishes an updating of the social contract, and examines the virtues of common law in contrast to statutory law.In his final chapters, Holcombe provides a foundation upon which the preceding chapters are logically built. From his analysis, it appears that there is an approximate correspondence between voter preferences and political outcomes, as depicted by a median voter model, but that for many reasons resource allocation through the public sector is considerably less efficient than through the private sector."

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262261616
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( 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 294 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 : Stanley L. Winer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781843767527
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Political Economy and Public Finance written by Stanley L. Winer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which politics plays no role. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a meaningful dialogue between these two groups, in the belief that the future of both political economy and of normative public finance lies somewhere between the two approaches. Some of the specific questions addressed in the book include: does public finance need political economy? Should collective choice play a role in the standard of reference used in normative public finance? What is a 'failure' in a non-market or policy process? And what have we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical research on public choice? The book also provides a practitioner's view of the political economy of redistribution.

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865972520
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan written by James M. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An index to the series "The Collected works of James M. Buchanan."

Author : Richard Abel Musgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Public Finance in a Democratic Society: Social goods, taxation, and fiscal policy written by Richard Abel Musgrave and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar K. Browning
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Public Finance and the Price System written by Edgar K. Browning and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Otto Eckstein
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Public Finance written by Otto Eckstein and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Bernhard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107320992
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book Democratic Processes and Financial Markets written by William Bernhard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets. Where these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases. In contrast, where market actors can forecast the result, returns do not exhibit any unusual behavior. Further, political expectations condition how markets respond to the political process. When news causes market actors to update their political beliefs, market actors reallocate their portfolios, and overall market behavior changes. To measure political information, Professors Bernhard and Leblang employ sophisticated models of the political process. They draw on a variety of models of market behavior, including the efficient markets hypothesis, capital asset pricing model, and arbitrage pricing theory, to trace the impact of political events on currency, stock, and bond markets. The analysis will appeal to academics, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates across political science, economics, and finance.