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Author(s): Joseph E. Stiglitz; Jay K. Rosengard
ISBN(s): 9780393925227, 0393925226
Edition: 4th
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0393925226
ISBN 13: 9780393925227
Author: Joseph E Stiglitz, Jay K Rosengard

What should be the role of government in society? How should it design its programs? How should tax systems be designed to promote both efficiency and fairness? Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and new co-author Jay Rosengard use their first-hand policy-advising experience to address these key issues of public-sector economics in this modern and accessible Fourth Edition.

Economics of the Public Sector 4th Table of contents:

Part 1: Role and Size of the Public Sector

  1. Defining Public Sector Responsibilities

    • Government’s role, market failures, economic models, Musgrave’s framework, values in economics, etc.

  2. Measuring Public Sector Size

    • Government activity, expenditure trends, taxation, deficit financing, cross-country comparisons.

Part 2: Fundamentals of Welfare Economics

  1. Market Efficiency

    • Pareto efficiency, utility, theorems of welfare economics, product/exchange efficiency.

  2. Market Failure

    • Types of failures (public goods, externalities, info asymmetry), redistribution, positive vs. normative.

  3. Public Goods and Publicly Provided Private Goods

    • Free riders, demand curves for public goods, rationing, distortionary taxation.

  4. Externalities and the Environment

    • Coase Theorem, regulations, market-based solutions, environmental protection.

  5. Efficiency and Equity

    • Trade-offs, distributional analysis, inequality metrics (Lorenz Curve, Atkinson Index).

Part 3: Public Expenditure Theory

  1. Public Production of Goods and Services

    • Natural monopoly, government failure, corporatization, privatization.

  2. Public Choice

    • Voting paradoxes, Arrow’s theorem, median voter, special interest influence.

Part 4: Public Expenditure in Practice

  1. Framework for Analysis of Expenditure Policy

    • Program need, design impacts, private sector responses, efficiency & distribution.

  2. Evaluating Public Expenditure

    • Cost-benefit analysis, valuing life/time, risk assessment, shadow pricing.

  3. Defense, Research, and Technology

    • Military spending, deterrence theory, patent issues, R&D market failures.

  4. Health Care

    • Market failures in health, inefficiencies, insurance industry, reform efforts.

  5. Education

    • Public provision rationale, performance, school choice, federal roles.

  6. Welfare Programs and Income Redistribution

    • Program structures (TANF, SNAP, EITC), cash vs. in-kind aid, welfare reform.

  7. Social Insurance

    • Social Security challenges, market failures in insurance, reforms and equity.

Part 5: Taxation in Theory

  1. Introduction to Taxation

    • Tax principles (efficiency, equity), tax system characteristics.

  2. Tax Incidence

    • Who bears the tax burden? Elasticity, general vs. partial equilibrium, capital vs. labor.

  3. Taxation and Economic Efficiency

    • Deadweight loss, labor and savings taxes, progressive tax effects.

  4. Optimal Taxation

    • Ramsey rule, equity vs. efficiency, tax structures, political economy.

  5. Taxation of Capital

    • Investment, risk-taking, depreciation, inflation, capital gains.

Part 6: Taxation in Practice

  1. The Personal Income Tax

    • Structure, deductions/credits, capital income treatment, tax fairness.

  2. The Corporation Income Tax

    • Incidence, debt bias, tax shelters, global taxation.

  3. A Student’s Guide to Tax Avoidance

    • Avoidance strategies, shelters, reform, equity/efficiency conflicts.

  4. Reform of the Tax System

    • Complexity, compliance, 1986 reform, modern proposals.

Part 7: Further Issues

  1. Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations

    • Fiscal federalism, mandates, national vs. local public goods.

  2. Subnational Taxes and Expenditures

    • Property tax, capitalization, rent control, local public choice.

  3. Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt

    • U.S. deficit history, debt burden, austerity debates, reform strategies.

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