Foundations in Public Economics

ISBN: 9780521348010 出版年：1988 页码：334 David A Starrett Cambridge University Press

Preface and acknowledgments Notation Part I. Scope and Limitations: 1. Introduction 2. Social objectives and direct decision making 3. Market decentralization 4. Market decentralization 4. Theory of collective goods Part II. Decision Making in a Mixed Economy: 5. Planning mechanisms 6. Models of a mixed economy 7. Government budgeting and fiscal decentralization 8. Public pricing and optimal-commodity taxation Part III. First-Order Project Analysis: 9. Decompositions and general theory of second best 10. Principles of shadow pricing 11. Local public goods 12. Intertemporal contexts with uncertainty 13. Identifying shadow values: hedonic methods and capitalization Part IV. Evaluating Large Projects: 14. search for exact measures 15. Surplus approximations 16. Practical methods for large-project evaluation 17. Peak-load problem Epilog References Author index Subject index.