Public Finance and Public Policy - A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government Hillman Arye L. Bar-Ilan University IsraelPaperback / softback
Public Finance and Public Policy - A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government Hillman Arye L. Bar-Ilan University IsraelPaperback / softback This new…
Specifikacia Public Finance and Public Policy - A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government Hillman Arye L. Bar-Ilan University IsraelPaperback / softback
Public Finance and Public Policy - A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government Hillman Arye L. Bar-Ilan University IsraelPaperback / softback
This new edition restructures and updates the political economy view of the responsibilities and limitations of government. Gender issues are included. Public-choice and behavioural concepts are prominent.
Economic theory is rigorously applied. Technical concepts are explained from first principles. Excessive technicality is avoided.
The book integrates traditional public finance topics - taxation, public goods, externalities, and income redistribution - with political self-interest, bureaucracy, voting, rent seeking, corruption, and the common-pool problem of public spending. Social justice is viewed as income equality, equality of opportunity, or the right to benefit from one's own effort. Public policies studied include the environment, education, health insurance, welfare payments and entitlements under moral hazard, unemployment insurance, paternalistic impositions, and defence and