Public Finance and Public Policy
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Public Finance and Public Policy by Jonathan Gruber
When it first appeared, Jonathan Gruber s Public Finance and Public Policy was the first textbook to truly reflect the way public finance issues were evaluated, implemented, and researched in the real world today. Like no other text available, it enhanced its survey of essential, traditional topics with an emphasis on empirical work and coverage of transfer programs and social insurance. Coming in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the presidential election, the 2009 stimulus package, and ongoing debates over financial reform and health care reform Gruber is the author of Massachusetts universal coverage plan the new edition couldn t be more timely.Thoroughly updated, Public Finance and Public Policy, Third Edition brings students up to date on the important debates that are dominating today s policymaking, giving them the basic tools they need to understand fundamental public finance issues now and in the future.
When it first appeared, Jonathan Gruber s Public Finance and Public Policy was the first textbook to truly reflect the way public finance issues were evaluated, implemented, and researched in the real world today. Like no other text available, it enhanced its survey of essential, traditional topics with an emphasis on empirical work and coverage of transfer programs and social insurance. Coming in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the presidential election, the 2009 stimulus package, and ongoing debates over financial reform and health care reform Gruber is the author of Massachusetts universal coverage plan the new edition couldn t be more timely.
Thoroughly updated, Public Finance and Public Policy, Third Edition brings students up to date on the important debates that are dominating today s policymaking, giving them the basic tools they need to understand fundamental public finance issues now and in the future.
Dr. Jonathan Gruber is an Economics Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching since 1992. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he directs the Health Care Program. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a Journal of Health Economics Associate Editor. Dr. Gruber has a B.S. in biology. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from MIT and a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Harvard University has a degree in economics. He's been given an Alfred P. In 1994, he received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a National Institute on Aging FIRST fellowship, and the Kenneth Arrow Award for the Outstanding Work in Health Economics. In 1995, he was one of 15 scientists countrywide to earn the National Science Foundation's Presidential Faculty Fellow Award.
In 2005, Dr. Gruber was inducted into the Institute of Medicine, and in 2006, he was awarded the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medial for the nation's top health economist under the age of 40. Dr. Gruber's academic interests include public finance and health economics. He has authored over 125 research papers and edited six research books. Dr. Gruber was on leave from MIT during the 1997-1998 academic year, serving as the United States' Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy.
Department of the Treasury He was a key architect of Massachusetts' ambitious health reform initiative, and he joined the Health Connector Board, the effort's main implementing body, as an inaugural member in 2006. Modern Healthcare Magazine named him the sixteenth most powerful person in health care in the United States that year. He has served as a consultant on multiple presidential campaigns and is regarded as one of America's most important health-care experts by the Washington Post.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781429219495 |
| ISBN 10 | 1429219491 |
| Title | Public Finance and Public Policy |
| Author | Jonathan Gruber |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Macmillan Learning |
| Year published | 2009-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 700 |
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