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Public economics / Gareth D. Myles.

By: Myles, Gareth D.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: xvi, 546 p. : ill ; 26 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0521497213 .Subject(s): Welfare economics | Economic policy | Taxation | Public welfare | Social choice | Equilibrium (Economics)DDC classification: 336
Contents:
Part I: Foundations -- Introduction -- General equilibrium and welfare economics -- Topics in measurement -- Part II: Analysis in the competitive economy -- Commodity taxation -- Income taxation -- Policy reform -- Risk -- Corporate taxation -- Part III: Relaxing the assumptions -- Public goods -- Externalities -- Imperfect competition -- Tax evasion -- Part IV: Introducing real time -- Overlapping generations economies -- Social security -- Debt and taxation.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This textbook provides a thorough treatment of all the central topics in public economics. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, it will also be invaluable to professional economists and to those teaching in the field. The book is entirely self-contained, giving all the equilibrium theory and welfare economics needed to understand the analyses. The author covers the Arrow-Debreu economy, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty which lay the foundations and emphasise the important role played by information. Within the competitive economy, he examines commodity taxation, income taxation and tax reform in a certain environment. He goes on to study the public economics of uncertainty, and then treats public goods, externalities, imperfect competition and tax evasion as departures from the standard competitive assumptions and looks at their implication for public economics derived.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-535) and indexes.

Part I: Foundations -- Introduction -- General equilibrium and welfare economics -- Topics in measurement -- Part II: Analysis in the competitive economy -- Commodity taxation -- Income taxation -- Policy reform -- Risk -- Corporate taxation -- Part III: Relaxing the assumptions -- Public goods -- Externalities -- Imperfect competition -- Tax evasion -- Part IV: Introducing real time -- Overlapping generations economies -- Social security -- Debt and taxation.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Part I Foundations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 General equilibrium and welfare economics
  • 3 Topics in measurement
  • Part II Analysis in the Competitive Economy
  • 4 Commodity taxation
  • 5 Income taxation
  • 6 Policy reform
  • 7 Risk
  • 8 Corporate taxation
  • Part III Relaxing the Assumptions
  • 9 Public goods
  • 10 Externalities
  • 11 Imperfect competition
  • 12 Tax evasion
  • Part IV Introducing Real Time
  • 13 Overlapping generations economies
  • 14 Social security
  • 15 Debt and taxation
  • References
  • Index

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