Handbook of Public Finance

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Backhaus, Jürgen G. (Editor), Wagner, Richard E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Political science.; Microeconomics.; Macroeconomics.; Public finance.; Economics.; Public Economics.; Political Science.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

The Handbook of Public Finance provides a definitive source, reference, and text for the field of public finance. In 18 chapters it surveys the state of the art - the tradition and breadth of the field but also its current status and recent developments. The Handbook's intellectual foundation a...

Table of Contents:

• Society, State, and Public Finance: Setting the Analytical Stage
• Welfare Economics and Public Finance
• Fiscal Contitutionalism
• Growth in the Real Size of Government Since 1970
• Rules, Politics and the Normative Analysis of Taxation
• Taxation, Production, and Redistribution
• Public Revenue from Land Rent
• Debt, Money, and Public Finance
• Regulation by Taxation
• Taxation, Black Markets, and Other Unintended Consequences
• Public Enterprise: Retrospective Review and Prospective Theory
• Privatization, Nationalization, and Aspects of Transition
• Social Insurance
• Redistribution, Poor Relief, and the Welfare State
• Economic Analysis and Efficiency in Public Expenditure
• Local Public Finance
• Federalism and Subsidiarity in National and International Contexts
• Fiscal Sociology: What For?.