Public Finance —— A Normative Theory

----- 公共财政：规范理论

ISBN: 9780126990515 出版年：2002 页码：975 Tresch, Richard W Academic Press_RM

Part I: Introduction: The Content and Methodology of Public Sector Theory Introduction to Normative Public Sector Theory A General Equilibrium Model for Public Sector Analysis First-Best and Second-Best Analysis and the Political Economy of Public Sector Economics Part II: The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: First-Best Analysis The Social Welfare Function in Policy Analysis The Problem of Externalities: An Overview Consumption Externalities Production Externalities The US Anti-Pollution Policies: An Application of Externality Theory The Theory of Decreasing Cost Production The First-Best Theory of Taxation Applying First-Best Principles of Taxation: What to Tax and How Part III: The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: Second-Best Analysis Introduction to Second-Best Analysis The Second-Best Theory of Taxation in One-Consumer Economies with Linear Production Technology The Second-Best Theory of Taxation with General Production Technologies and Many Consumers Taxation under Asymmetric Information The Theory and Measurement of Tax Incidence Expenditure Incidence and Economy-Wide Incidence Studies The Second-Best Theory of Public Expenditures--Overview Transfer Payments and Private Information Externalities in a Second-Best Environment Decreasing Costs and the Theory of the Second Best--the Boiteux Problem General Production Rules in a Second-Best Environment Part IV: Cost-Benefit Analysis Introduction--the Issues of Cost-Benefit Analysis The Rate of Discount for Public Investments Uncertainty and the Arrow-Lind Problem Measurement Problems in Cost-Benefit Analysis Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Distribution of Income Common Pitfalls in Cost-Benefit Analysis Part V: Fiscal Federalism Optimal Federalism--Sorting the Functions of Government within the Fiscal Hierarchy Optimal Federalism--The Sorting of People within the Fiscal Hierarchy The Role of Grants-in-Aid in a Federalist System of Government