Economics of the public sector / Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jay K. Rosengard.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2015.Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xxxii, 923 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 0393937097
- 9780393937091
- 336.73 STI
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
What should be the role of government in society? How should it design its programmes?
How should tax systems be designed to promote both efficiency and fairness?
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and new co-author Jay Rosengard bring an unparalleled level of expertise to address these key issues of public-sector economics. No other text is as modern, as accessible, or incorporates as much first-hand policy-advising experience by its authors as Stiglitz/Rosengard.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one: Role and size of the public sector -- Defining public sector responsibilities -- Measuring public sector size -- Part two: Fundamentals of welfare economics -- Market efficiency -- Market failure -- Public goods and publicly provided private goods -- Externalities and the environment -- Efficiency and equity -- Part three: Public expenditure theory -- Public production of goods and services -- Public choice -- Part four: Public expenditure in practice -- Framework for analysis of expenditure policy -- Evaluating public expenditure -- Defense, research, and technology -- Health care -- Education -- Welfare programs and the redistribution of income -- Social insurance -- Part five: Taxation in theory -- Introduction to taxation -- Tax incidence -- Taxation and economic efficiency -- Optimal taxation -- Taxation of capital -- Part six: Taxation in practice -- The personal income tax -- The corporation income tax -- A student\'s guide to tax avoidance -- Reform of the tax system -- Part seven: Further issues -- Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- Subnational taxes and expenditures -- Fiscal deficits and government debt.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Joseph Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia University.